Mail Archives: djgpp/1998/07/07/20:15:53
Destination: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
From: Gruber Gerhard
Group: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Date: Tue, 7 Jul 1998 14:03:56 +0300 (IDT):
>I think you are mistaken. The LFN-related code is not some separate
>module, it is built into the low-level libc functions. And its
>overhead is much, much less than you seem to imply: usually, it boils
>down to testing a variable and using a different function of Int 21h
>depending on whether LFN is or isn't supported.
>
>The only other stuff that is linked into every DJGPP program is the
>startup code and support memory and I/O functions. They total about
>18KB.
I didn't look in the code so I don't know what takes how much memory. BUt I
think that the libc is pretty heavilly used, isn't it? Depends on how much
programs one has compiled with DJGPP, though.
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Bye,
Gerhard
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