Date: Thu, 11 Jul 1996 17:41:08 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Ridge <ridge AT owb DOT mindspring DOT com>
Cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: memory exhausted?!?!
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On Mon, 8 Jul 1996, Ridge wrote:

> I'm beta testing a graphics library and I have run across a linker
> problem, so I figured I'd post it here if it happens to be a djgpp
> thing.  When I attempt to link my object file and the library which is
> about 420k, I get "could not read symbols: memory exhausted."  Any fix I
> could apply or am I doing something hideously wrong?

This is a bug of ld.exe (see section 8.18 of the DJGPP FAQ list for 
details).  Either break your library into a few smaller libraries, or 
(better) get the Binutils source distribution (v2gnu/bnu252s.zip) and 
debug this problem.  (In general, in DJGPP nothing gets done unless 
somebody has enough motivation and time to get it done, and it seems that 
no one of the DJGPP development team has to cope with large libraries, 
or else it would have been fixed a long time ago: this problem is with us 
since DJGPP v1.12, which is 2 years old.)