Date:	Wed, 11 Oct 1995 12:56:26 -0400 (EDT)
From:	Cuthalion / Sliced Bread <enrico AT max DOT tiac DOT net>
To:	"A.Appleyard" <A DOT APPLEYARD AT fs2 DOT mt DOT umist DOT ac DOT uk>
Cc:	DJGPP AT SUN DOT SOE DOT CLARKSON DOT EDU
Subject:	Re: Many small files versus big clusters

On Wed, 11 Oct 1995, A.Appleyard wrote:

>   A.Appleyard wrote:-
> > If (say) all the files LIBSRC\C\IO\*.C are chained into one big file
> > LIBSRC\C\IO.C, and after each function (plus its associated outermost-level
> > declarations) you insert a new preprocessor command `#libunit' ...
> 
>   Thomas Eifert <EIFERT AT reze-1 DOT rz DOT rwth-aachen DOT de> replied:-
> > just enough to make all that stuff incompatible to the rest of the world -
> > is it that you desire ???
>   Someone has to be first with these new ideas, and it may as well be djgpp as
> anyone else.

	Someone does need to be first, but it should certainly NOT be 
djgpp, for it's major "selling" point (well, plus it's price) is 
portability!  A compiler touting portability is not the one to pioneer 
new and exotic preprocessor directives, IMO.

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