Re: BDS2006 exe sizes

On 2006-02-26, J French <erewhon@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
The capabilities of these APIs grow with every new Windows version, so
that the libraries also must grow, in order to make the new console etc.
functionality available to applications.

Really ?
The APIs are just declarations, mostly in the windows unit
- also the compiler strips out code that it knows is not used

All the names of the needed functions are in the binary.

More likely the reason for the growth is that more Class based code is
added, and it is hard for the compiler to be sure that it really is
redundant.

Afaik not. It is simply initialisation, of exception handling, threadvar,
internalionalisation etc.

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