Re: Pro*C applications size increases..

In article: <Cvn2s6.69u_at_info.uucp> derwin_at_mach2.wlu.ca (Daryl Erwin) writes:
:
: In article <34ctvl$nhp$1_at_mhadg.inhouse.compuserve.com> Stephen Lappin <100045.167_at_CompuServe.COM>
 writes:
: >Barry Roomberg (barry.roomberg_at_compudata.com) wrote:
: >: -> Has anyone else noticed, that when recompiling a Pro*C
 application
: >: -> under Oracle7, the stiped executable is about 6 times
 bigger? (from a
: >: -> previous compile under 6.0.34)
 

: >: Yup. Doesn't take much more memory to execute, but really
 eats up disk
: >: space.
: >
: >I believe that this problem is fixed in 7.0.16. My C executables
: >reduced in size significantly when I recompiled them.
: >
: >Slainte mhath
: >Stephen
: We were aware of this problem before going to 7.
: We havent tried compiling on 7 yet, but Oracle did say it was something
: that was going to be fixed.
:
: (It had something to do with linking the entire "library" to each executable.
:
:

Glad you pointed this out, for example on our alpha box running VMS 50 block .pc file expands to an OBJ of 125 blocks and an EXE file expands to 3114 blocks (ie 1 1/2 megs!). oracle UK responce desk had no record of this problem in their database!
can anyone confirm that this problem is fixed in version 7.1

        Phil...

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