Orchid XP v8 wrote:
> wonders what the hell kind of testing they did while managing to miss 
> this one...

Yeah, the same was true of the Eiffel compiler when I bought it. Eiffel, the 
language for reliable software!

Anyway, chances are the person who tested it had already installed it and 
wound up running it against a different file. It's the sort of thing that 
happens when you've got a small shop instead of someone whose job it is to 
spend extra time to make sure it works on a vanilla machine.

> Also: What about DLLs registered in the... registry?

That's not DLLs. That's COM classes stored in DLLs.

> Apparently the compiler's dead code elimination works quite well.

It's not hard if every function is in a separate .o blob.

-- 
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
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