Author: F. Huber
Date: 09:36:10 01/20/04
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On January 20, 2004 at 08:04:55, Ed Schröder wrote: >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 Thanks Ed, this IS now an explanation, where I understand why you can´t avoid this huge EXE size. For me it´s not really a problem - I´ve written a small program which cuts off this 6MB overhead (but you should know this already ;-)) Regards, Franz.
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