Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1999 10:57:34 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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On Wed, 9 Jun 1999, Igor I. Tovstopyat-Nelip wrote:

> Though, I still think that dynamic libraries might be not that bad. For
> instance, all kinds of Unixes use them intensively and nevertheless may be
> regarded as solid and reliable systems.

That's because a typical Unix system has a person called ``sysadmin''
who won't let you install any software that overwrites system
libraries.  Compare that with the usual non-administration of a
typical desktop PC, and you will understand the reasons for the
difference.

> As a beginner I just didn't know that DJGPP produces a debugging
> version of executable by default (which is not usually a case in Unix).

This isn't true: Unix linkers also produce unstripped programs by
default (after all, DJGPP uses a linker that is a port form Unix).

The difference in size might be due to a fact that GCC produces much
more debugging info than other Unix compilers, and also because many
modern Unix systems use dynamic linking (ala DLLs) as the default.