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Re: Borlands TLINK and minimizing an EXEs memory usage

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Ross Ridge writes:
> No, if that were the case you wouldn't have to jump through hoops to
> implement it.  Your linker would just set the value "correctly".

R.Wieser <address@not.available> wrote:
>But yes, that Borland has forgotten to give me an option to set that value
>is a flaw of *Borland*, not the spects to the EXE format.

The Borland linker was written by professional programmers who jobs
depended on getting things like this correct.  Those people, who had
infinitely more knowledge and experience than you, decided that you
didn't need this option.

>If you want to stay willfully blind, including ignoring all the signals that
>the problem I have with my linker is not at all universal and you want to
>keep on going "suggesting" bad programming practices (adding bandaids where
>solutions would be more apropriate -- in my case I'm thinking of replacing
>my linker) you're very welcome.  Just don't expect from me to applaud you
>for it.

I'm not the one being willfully blind.  I'm not the one ignoring the
example of vast majority of MS-DOS programmers who never set this
header value, letting their EXEs allocate all of memory a startup.
I'm not who's saying what all these people, all these experienced and
professional programmers, were doing was a bad programming practice.
I'm not the one who's so arrogant and delusional that he believes that
he's correct and all these programmers must have been wrong

					Ross Ridge

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Borlands TLINK and minimizing an EXEs memory usage "R.Wieser" <address@not.available> - 2013-04-03 22:46 +0200
  Re: Borlands TLINK and minimizing an EXEs memory usage Bogus@Embarq.com (Steve) - 2013-04-04 12:51 +0000
    Re: Borlands TLINK and minimizing an EXEs memory usage "R.Wieser" <address@not.available> - 2013-04-04 17:51 +0200
      Re: Borlands TLINK and minimizing an EXEs memory usage Ross Ridge <rridge@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> - 2013-04-04 16:40 -0400
        Re: Borlands TLINK and minimizing an EXEs memory usage "R.Wieser" <address@not.available> - 2013-04-05 00:43 +0200
          Re: Borlands TLINK and minimizing an EXEs memory usage Ross Ridge <rridge@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> - 2013-04-04 19:51 -0400
            Re: Borlands TLINK and minimizing an EXEs memory usage "R.Wieser" <address@not.available> - 2013-04-05 11:50 +0200
              Re: Borlands TLINK and minimizing an EXEs memory usage Bogus@Embarq.com (Steve) - 2013-04-05 12:21 +0000
                Re: Borlands TLINK and minimizing an EXEs memory usage "R.Wieser" <address@not.available> - 2013-04-05 16:02 +0200
              Re: Borlands TLINK and minimizing an EXEs memory usage Ross Ridge <rridge@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> - 2013-04-05 20:56 -0400
                Re: Borlands TLINK and minimizing an EXEs memory usage "R.Wieser" <address@not.available> - 2013-04-06 12:37 +0200
                Re: Borlands TLINK and minimizing an EXEs memory usage JJ <jaejunks@nah.meh> - 2013-04-06 21:10 +0700
                Re: Borlands TLINK and minimizing an EXEs memory usage "R.Wieser" <address@not.available> - 2013-04-06 19:38 +0200
                Re: Borlands TLINK and minimizing an EXEs memory usage Ross Ridge <rridge@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> - 2013-04-07 02:34 -0400
                Re: Borlands TLINK and minimizing an EXEs memory usage "R.Wieser" <address@not.available> - 2013-04-07 19:55 +0200
                Re: Borlands TLINK and minimizing an EXEs memory usage Ross Ridge <rridge@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> - 2013-04-07 16:07 -0400
                Re: Borlands TLINK and minimizing an EXEs memory usage "R.Wieser" <address@not.available> - 2013-04-08 00:32 +0200
                Re: Borlands TLINK and minimizing an EXEs memory usage Bogus@Embarq.com (Steve) - 2013-04-08 12:52 +0000
                Re: Borlands TLINK and minimizing an EXEs memory usage rugxulo@gmail.com - 2013-04-08 14:15 -0700
  Re: Borlands TLINK and minimizing an EXEs memory usage "Rod Pemberton" <do_not_have@notemailnotq.cpm> - 2013-04-07 20:20 -0400
    Re: Borlands TLINK and minimizing an EXEs memory usage "R.Wieser" <address@not.available> - 2013-04-08 12:48 +0200
      Re: Borlands TLINK and minimizing an EXEs memory usage JJ <jaejunks@nah.meh> - 2013-04-09 09:12 +0700
        Re: Borlands TLINK and minimizing an EXEs memory usage "R.Wieser" <address@not.available> - 2013-04-09 12:47 +0200
    Re: Borlands TLINK and minimizing an EXEs memory usage Ross Ridge <rridge@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> - 2013-04-08 20:17 -0400
      Re: Borlands TLINK and minimizing an EXEs memory usage "R.Wieser" <address@not.available> - 2013-04-09 12:28 +0200

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