Subject: Re: cygwin.dll
From: [email-masked] (Shankar Unni)

17 Jan 1997 20:49:52 -0800
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James Osburn wrote:

> First the cygwin.dll is to large It should not
> contain the unix to win32 interface. 

Folks: cygwin.dll is *NOT* that large. If you run "size" on it, you'll
see that the active parts (text+data+bss) are actually only 330K (not
3MB). The size of the file is obviously due to debug information and the
like, but 3MB are *NOT* being loaded into memory. So relax.

I'm sure the production cygwin.dll will be much more svelte (shouldn't
be much more than 500K, if compiled without -g). There should be a
separate cygwindebug.dll with full debug information, for those who want
to debug their programs and step into the libraries.

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Shankar Unni                                  [email-masked]
Chromatic Research                            (408) 752-9488
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