[A83] Re: CRT (was SDCC port)

To: assembly-83@lists.ticalc.org
Subject: [A83] Re: CRT (was SDCC port)
From: "Aaron St.John" <aaronstj@hotmail.com>
Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2003 14:18:09 -0800
Reply-To: assembly-83@lists.ticalc.org

>Libraries are a hassle. Although a nice concept, it's annoying to have to 
>go find another lib to get some program working. I once did it and was told 
>to get rid of them.

I think the benifits of having a shared CRT outweighs the hassle.  If C 
programs become common, a lot of space could be wasted by duplicate code.  
For example, printf takes up about 500 bytes of code.  If every program 
included acopy of printf, that's a lot of wasted space, we we don't have 
much room for on the TI-83.

One thing in our favor here is that the CRT's interface is standardized, so 
even if there was more than one version of the CRT, you could still expect a 
program to function correctly.

One idea is to create a dynamically linked library and a statically linked 
library, and see which one wins out in the end, but that would be a lot of 
work.

Stupid like a fox!
Look ma, I'm an artist: http://aaronstj.deviantart.com



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