On Mon, Jun 22, 2020 at 01:26:54PM -0700, Michael wrote: > > On 2020-06-22, at 1:12 PM, Dr M J Carter <martin.car...@physics.ox.ac.uk> > wrote: > > > Rats: you beat me to it. I'll restrict myself to reminiscing about > > dylibs having allegedly been invented (by Sun?) out of embarrassment, > > on finding hello.c was bloated, to 3MBytes iirc, by printf() dragging > > in half the known universe at link time. > > Oh, it's not all that bad. Just the standard io library, the file > buffering library, the larger startup and exit code, math library > (because some of the formatting options required something, probably > rounding, I have long since forgotten), error text translation > (gotta be able to report the error numbers as human readable text, > after all), some string library routines -- oh, right, that's ALL of > the string library, and ... did I leave anything out?
What was brought to my attention at the time was writing on an X screen. As X11 was a novelty at the time, I didn't know to ask whether xterm or direct drawing was involved, or whether stdlib (or whatever) was playing it both ways. (If anyone needs to correct me on this, I pre-emptively plead bitrot in the wetware.) PS: Apologies for blindly replying-to-all for the wrong value of all. -- Dr Martin J Carter Sysadmin to the Stars, and Old Fart in Residence Astrophysics, University of Oxford