Author: Ed Schröder
Date: 05:04:55 01/20/04
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On January 20, 2004 at 05:28:53, F. Huber wrote: >On January 19, 2004 at 19:32:00, Eelco de Groot wrote: >[...] >>So short answer; not everything is interchangeable. >>The .exe file is not interchangeable without weakening Rebel Windows >>(new .exe is also pretty large, 7 Mb!) > >Hi Eelco, > >you can _forget_ this (large) size (7MB) of the new Rebel.exe - >the _real_ code is about 880kB and the rest is simply an overhead of >more than 6MB (useless!) zero-bytes! > >This was also true for the previous Rebel12 versions, and I´ve already >reported this mor than once here (and to Ed), but it seems he doesn´t >find this bug (?) or wrong setting in his compiler - or he doesn´t mind. :-( I do mind :) It is a bug in compiler, the DOS part. Whenever I define an aray it adds the size to the executable :) probably because it wants to "zero" the area at program start. I have reported the bug so I hope it will be fixed. The bug isn't in the Windows part of the compiler. Hope this explains it. My best, Ed
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