Re: 4GL 7.2 install

Carlson@WHSmith wrote: > > We're upgrading our OS on the test system (HPUX 10.01 to HPUX 10.20) and > I've noticed the strangest thing when compiling some 4gl programs. > > It seems that the compiled 4ge programs are much larger, even with the > -shared option of c4gl. I stripped the program and it helped a little. > > Since GLS support is built into the tools now, my guess is that this > situation explains the increase in executable size. It looks like 7.2 > 4GL will take up a bit more real estate than we had planned. > > John Carlson > Informix DBA > WH Smith, Inc. Just about every OS upgrade I have ever done has increased the size of executables. The C libraries seem to grow in size every time. The code gets more and more bloated. I know Informix supply their own versions of much of the library code but they have the same problem too. -- Peter Lancashire Information Systems Specialist, Bayer plc Eastern Way, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, IP32 7AH, UK Tel: +44-1635-562258, Fax: +44-1635-562281 --- If all else fails, read the instructions. All opinions are my own and not those of Bayer plc. My Internet plumbing does not allow me to mail and post news together. Sorry. --- Join Infuse, the UK Informix User Group at http://www.infuse.org.uk/