MS DOS overlay programming

[Chuck Guzis]

On 21 Dec 2006 at 19:09, Michael B. Brutman wrote:

> Any ideas?  The only one I can think of is kind of brute force ...  have 
> two apps, one that inits everything and leaves the storage resident, and 
> another that refers to that resident storage.  (I was hoping for 
> something simpler in the Borland runtime support.)

That's the approach that I'd take--except I'd have the first one 
write a temp file with all of the initialzed goodies and have the 
second one read it in.    It's dirty, quick and modular--and maybe 
easier to debug.

I do know that not all C/C++ libraries are the same, nor are C/C++ 
compilers.  Some generate lots of calls to the library, which can 
bring in all sorts of unneeded garbage.  I've written C programs with 
their own startup code that run fine without any C library at all.   
I don't know if that's even possible in C++, however.

Cheers,
Chuck