Re: 21.4.14 Linking Question
Michael Sperber <sperber(a)informatik.uni-tuebingen.de> writes:
>>>>> "Hrvoje" == Hrvoje Niksic
<hniksic(a)xemacs.org> writes:
Hrvoje> Personally I still prefer Kyle's original proposal of
Hrvoje> "dumping" C code and linking against it as part of the
Hrvoje> XEmacs build process (which would be *really* portable), but
Hrvoje> I could live with the current pdump architecture as well.
That's nice in theory---in practice, there are complications because
many C compilers run quadratically in the size of things like array
initializers.
But you don't have to initialize everything in one array. Or did I
misunderstand you? Anyway, I've seen code that pulls it off, so I
know it's possible in practice as well as in theory. I agree that it
might be harder with something of the size of XEmacs.