Re: building of terminal drivers

[Hans-Bernhard B. <br...@ph...>]

Robert Hart wrote:

> This is because all the terminals are #included into term.c, and
> therefore they are all rebuilt together.

Not "all the drivers" --- only the ones selected by your current term.h.
If you're noticeably bothered by the compile time for time.c, feel free 
to use a cut-down version of term.h for the tests.  There's even a 
precedent you can start off from: see the SHORT_TERMLIST conditional 
section at the start of term.h.

> It seems from the way the .trm files are laid out, it would be a
> simple matter to compile each one separately, and link them together 
> like standard .c files.

That was indeed a major motive behind the re-structuring of all terminal 
drivers performed a *long* time ago.

> Any reason why this hasn't been done?

Because the actual need never arose --- the platform where it would have 
been most important was 16-bit DOS.  It fails to compile for different 
reasons than the size of term.obj, nowadays...