From: "Tom Morton" <tmorton AT yikesstation DOT freeserve DOT co DOT uk>
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Subject: Re: Program too large?
Date: Tue, 28 Sep 1999 13:23:57 +0100
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Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> wrote in message
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>
> On Tue, 28 Sep 1999, Tom Morton wrote:
>
> > The last thing I did before it stopped working was add an extra function
> > to main.c. I tried re-compiling it but it still didn't work so I moved it
> > [the function] to another source file and everything worked again. <shrug>
> > Oh well, as long as it works...
>
> FWIW, I don't like such ``solutions''.  There's some problem lurking
> in your code, waiting to bite you again.  It is better to debug it now
> than to sweep it under the carpet.  How do you know that the problem,
> whatever it is, doesn't introduce a subtle bug into your program that
> you simply don't see?
>
> Feel free to post more details, if you want to pursue this further.

I am using a makefile. The only compiler options i'm using are -s and
-O2 (and -lalleg). I often see makefiles with -Wall. Maybe I should
add that, too (?).


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