FP emulation libraries (was Modula2's godawful IO)

[Ralf.Brown at B.GP.CS.CMU.EDU]

In article <230 at jupiter.olyis.UUCP>, ecb at pluto.uucp (Eric Brown) writes:
}Now include the size of the floating point libraries.  On Microsoft 5.0 C,
}calling printf links the floating point emulator, which is about 30K of code.
}        -Eric, Called Ultrahacker

Interesting.... Turbo C only links in the FP emulator if you actually use
floats in your program.  If you don't, you get an integer-only printf linked
in (which prints an error message if you try to use %f/%g/etc).  And the
emulation code is less than 19K (that's the size of the .LIB).

Just did a quick compile of the "Hello, world" program using printf and puts:

PRINTF   EXE     5720
PUTS     EXE     4080

(about 2.5K of the .EXE is the stdio library).
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