CompuServe Messages

Paul, The section on WorkBench discusses application startup and has an example of a startup module. I also recommend looking at the Assembly source for the startup module you are interested in. Ok, I hadn't seen the excerpt from the Amigan on the Lattice disk. There are some good pointers there for reducing code size. I'm not familiar with Manx or Mod II, so no comment. As far as taking one small program and tweaking it down to get the smallest code, I don't feel that would give results that would be useable. What methods you use to reduce code size will be dependent on the program itself. Such things as program size, function calls used, etc, will determine what methods are effective to reduce the size of that program. There isn't just one method that will always work for reducing code size and increasing speed. If there were, the compilers would be optimized to always use those means. I don't mean to sound negative, but it really is something that is individual and unique for each program and programmer. Of course, if you have the time, you could write it all in assembly, fresh and new each time, and have the fastest and smallest programs. <Glenn