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From: | "Andrew Crabtree" <andrewc AT rosemail DOT rose DOT hp DOT com> |
Newsgroups: | comp.os.msdos.djgpp |
Subject: | Re: DLL in djgpp??? |
Date: | Mon, 2 Mar 1998 15:16:39 -0800 |
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DJ-Gateway: | from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp |
Eli Zaretskii wrote in message ... > 3) Static linking only links in those library functions which > are actually used. In contrast, a DLL includes *all* of > the functions, so it is typically much larger My understanding is that the linker will source in all functions from a given object file, whether or not they are used. It of course only sucks in individual object files from a library as needed to satisfy externals. This would have the same memory overhead as a DLL.
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