From: sandmann AT clio DOT rice DOT edu (Charles Sandmann)
Message-Id: <10108082134.AA13854@clio.rice.edu>
Subject: Re: gettext port (DXE prototype)
To: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2001 16:34:55 -0500 (CDT)
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FYI - I build a copy of the libiconv iconv.exe using a DXE based run time 
loader.  Prototype - proof of concept -not final (I don't know how to use 
it) and I get iconv.exe being 66,560 bytes and the DXE being 854,404 bytes.
iconv -f CP850 -t CP850 
Seems to echo back what I type ...

The original executable was 937,472 - I'm not sure what magic optimization
(or mistake) made the sum of the two smaller than the original...

If anyone is interested I'd be happy to share the prototype.  This is 
definitely *NOT* production code - but it shows some of what we could
do for large pieces of common code just using the standard distribution.