From: "Alexey Kouzmitch" <arexey AT gis DOT net>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: GCC uses A LOT of memory to parse static arrays
Date: 19 Oct 1997 02:25:41 GMT
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I'd say the problem is that somehow the buffer is overflowed and not being
flushed...
I'm probably wrong tho...

Alexey.

J DOT Bischoff AT airbus DOT dasa DOT de wrote in article
<9710151405 DOT AA21437 AT axe DOT bre DOT da>...
> Hi!
> 
> > Well the situation is the reverse! Using this code to generate the
array:
> > 
> > #include <stdio.h>
> > 
> > int main(int argc, char *argv[])
> > {
> >  int i;
> >  printf("unsigned char x[]={\n");
> >  for (i=0; i<182520; i++)
> >     {
> >      printf("%d",i % 256);
> >      if (i!=182519)
> >         printf(",");
> >      if ((i % 20)==19)
> >         printf("\n");
> >     }
> >  printf("};\n");
> >  return 0;
> > }
> > 
> > I got "out of virtual"!!!!!, perhaps that isn't very important because
you
> > don't know what go32-v2 reports in my machine:
> > 
> > DPMI memory available: 27435 Kb
> > DPMI swap space available: 130389 Kb
> > 
> > So 128Mb is not enough!!
> 
> 
> This seems to be a general problem to all gcc-implementations (not only
djgpp).
> A example program that uses your 180000+-elements x[]-array created by
> your example code above crashed on my Unix workstation (128 MB),
> but with 256 MB it compiles well (gcc vers. 2.7.2.2).
> 
> So I think this problem should be addressed to the developers of gcc.
> 
> 
> Jens
> --
>