Re: [cc65] Uniform mass storage device discovery and file locations

From: Gábor Lénárt <lgb1lgb.hu>
Date: 2012-08-16 11:33:31
On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 10:55:46AM +0200, Oliver Schmidt wrote:
> > But it would create quite massive
> > sized programs if every compiled C program on C64 also includes the support
> > code for these ...
> 
> In contrast to the open() enhancments discussed in "the other thread"
> we're talking here about additional functions which if not used by a
> program won't increase it by a single byte.
> 
> > It would be better to write a minimalistic (mono tasking
> > is enough) OS to run these programs on top of it, or having some loadable
> > module, etc, as not every programs may need such features in detail on an
> > average CBM platform, I think.
> 
> The "ordinary" linker is fully capable of handling this by just not
> including the library code in question.

Ok, possibly I wanted to handle the two threads together too much.
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