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Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2011 11:20:59 -0500
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On 15/11/2011 10:53 AM, Dave Korn wrote:
> On 09/11/2011 12:15, Edvardsen Kåre wrote:
>> This is again related to the failure of execution of a gfortran built
>> binary ("cannot execute binary", see thread
>> http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2011-11/msg00034.html )
>>
>> In short, the main problem is that I can't build a successful binary
>> from the FLEXPART fortran code
>
>    I helped Edvardsen to track this down off-list.  It turns out that FLEXPART
> is one of those huge number-crunching Fortran programs that's just jam-packed
> with ginormous multi-dimensional arrays.  The final linked executable had 3.38
> GB of .bss space!  So, it's not too surprising that it didn't load on 32-bit
> Windows; and it's not, as I was worrying, any explicit bug in the compiler or
> binutils (although it may be arguable that ld could be helpful if it issued
> some kind of warning in these circumstances).
Out of curiosity, how then was the OP ever able to make *any* version run?

Ryan


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