Re: Compiling PRO-C = really big executables!

From: Jodi Showers <jshowers_at_cmi.on.ca>
Date: Mon, 28 Nov 1994 14:19:44 GMT
Message-ID: <jshowers-2811940916190001_at_mac25.cmi.on.ca>


In article <ODDMUND.94Nov27120610_at_fabian.delab.sintef.no>, oddmund_at_fabian.delab.sintef.no (Oddmund Johannessen) wrote:

> In article <mcallister.10.001166A8_at_neptune.grad.missouri.edu>
 mcallister_at_neptune.grad.missouri.edu (Andrew McAllister) writes:
>
> When I compile the sample 9 program in the proc/demo directory with the
> proc.mk file I get a 2 meg executable.
>
> This seems a little big to me. Am I doing something wrong?
>
> Andy (hasn't written for unix in years) McAllister
> Andrew McAllister -- mcallister_at_neptune.grad.missouri.edu
> Office of Research, University of Missouri-Columbia
> The views above are not those of my employer.
>
> Believe or not, but the Oracle guys do not use shareable libraries.
> So all Oracle related library code is linked into *EVERY* executable.
> Isn't that really smart. I certainly couldn't think of doing such
> smart things myself.
>

This was not always the case; ie v6 on pyramid had shared libraries.

Whereas v7 on pyramid does not.

We have raise this issue with oracle, and it seems as if many others have as well.

Jodi.

> --
> Oddmund.Johannessen_at_delab.sintef.no
Received on Mon Nov 28 1994 - 15:19:44 CET

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