X-Authentication-Warning: delorie.com: mailnull set sender to djgpp-bounces using -f From: invalid AT erehwon DOT invalid (Neo_1061) Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: Strange behavior of ld Organization: Geeks Anonymous Message-ID: <3cc39173.450455189@news.primus.ca> References: <3cc389e5 DOT 448520729 AT news DOT primus DOT ca> X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.21/32.243 Lines: 65 Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2002 04:46:11 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 216.254.210.83 X-Complaints-To: news AT primus DOT ca X-Trace: news.tor.primus.ca 1019450771 216.254.210.83 (Mon, 22 Apr 2002 00:46:11 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2002 00:46:11 EDT To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com On Mon, 22 Apr 2002 04:00:28 GMT, invalid AT erehwon DOT invalid (Neo_1061) jacked into the Matrix and the following appeared in comp.os.msdos.djgpp: >On Sun, 21 Apr 2002 10:04:45 +0300 (IDT), Eli Zaretskii > jacked into the Matrix and the following appeared >in comp.os.msdos.djgpp: > >> >>On Sun, 21 Apr 2002, Neo_1061 wrote: >> >>> Well, whatever's going on here, I still haven't received any useful >>> responses to this query. Even if some were *sent* none have been >>> *received*. >> >>As I told you earlier, you should be able to find my response in the >>DJGPP mail archives: > >As you told me earlier? I never saw it. >What the devil is going on around here? > >> http://www.delorie.com/djgpp/mail-archives/ > >Thanks. Get a new news server? I think not. I'm not spending a fortune to subscribe to another ISP just to read 1 newsgroup, and with the likely outcome that the second ISP's is no better than my current one's. I could ask around for someone to recommend a reliable, inexpensive ISP, if I didn't know that there's no such beast in the zoo. As for the temporary directory/swap space thing -- I indicated memory and swap space just to give reasonably complete system info, not because I thought it was out of memory. And to indicate that it wasn't a swap file growing to consume the disk space the linker needed. My environment has a couple of temp variables, all pointing at C:\Windows\temp. I'm not sure why the linker would even use temp files though -- memory can be addressed and manipulated with pointers much more conveniently, and with a modern OS disk space can be converted into such via swap space. Interprocess communication, or working with data structures bigger than 4gb such as large databases, are the only things that come to mind that this is no good for. And consuming 28 megs of temp files to link a few object files into an executable smaller than a megabyte seems to suggest an inefficient implementation indeed... DJGPP itself is on the C: partition, and C:\DJGPP\TMP exists, but has only a "remove.me" file in it at this time. In any case, I compressed some junk and freed up about 400 megs(!) on the D: partition. (Incidentally, at least one other app I use, a commercial one, does mysteriously use temporary files for some purpose or another, and causes problems by doing so. Corel Photo-Paint 7 seems to create temporary files of a meg or two sometimes, which gradually accumulate during a session until the C: drive is full. Then it has to be quit and restarted. When it's quit, the files are all deleted automatically, freeing the space. I've heard of memory leaks; this is my first experience with something leaking temporary file space. The linker, at least, doesn't appear to leak temp files.) -- Still waters run deep.