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Re: something is wrong

• Posted by Robert Craig <rds at RapidEuphoria.com> Aug 24, 2004
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I set up Win32Lib 0.60.4 and tried the clock.exw example.

With both the 2.4 binder and the 2.4 translator
I saw the problem where the time does not appear,
only the word "Clock".

With both the 2.5 (alpha) binder and the 2.5 (alpha) translator,
clock.exw worked fine. I also tried Win32Lib 0.59.1 and 
everything worked fine with 2.5. 

I noticed with 0.60.4 the .exe size produced by the 
translator was more than double, 1443K vs 602K. This is 
likely due to w32start.ew which has a call to routine_id() 
using a general expression, parms[1], rather than the 
usual hard-coded string naming a specific routine. 
What happens in this case is that the Translator 
(and also the binder) must mark every earlier global routine 
(plus the local routines in the same file) as being a possible target 
of routine_id(). This prevents these routines from ever being
deleted. Maybe there is a way to avoid this, such as moving the
general call to routine_id() to a place much earlier in the source.

Regards,
   Rob Craig
   Rapid Deployment Software
   http://www.RapidEuphoria.com