Subject: Re: Big Arrays
To: "Wayne G. Sullivan" <WSULIVAN AT irlearn DOT ucd DOT ie>
Date: Wed, 2 Mar 94 15:50:41 EST
From: Angelo Ferrigno <aferrign AT iisst3 DOT italy DOT NCR DOT COM>
Cc: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu

Wayne, I'm new to djgpp and don't know about zombie files left over, but I
have some experience with Unix compilers; when you say

> 16MB, when the compilation came to the ld stage, there was much gnashing
> of disk and eventually ld expired. With dj111m3, I can now have arrays

couldn't it be the case that the array is initialized? I have experienced
differences in link time in the order of several minutes (native C compilers
on Unix boxes) between two programs which are exactly alike apart from static
initialization of large arrays.

Angelo

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