From:	J DOT Bischoff AT airbus DOT dasa DOT de
Message-Id:	<9711211002.AA15293@axe.bre.da>
Subject:	Re: g77 problems
To:	ghubbar AT sandia DOT gov
Date:	Fri, 21 Nov 1997 11:02:38 MET
Cc:	djgpp AT delorie DOT com
In-Reply-To:	<34746CAC.427@sandia.gov>; from "Gary Hubbard" at Nov 20, 97 9:00 am

Hi, Gary,

I made the following experience with g77 under Unix:
If there is no DATA statement the size of both executables (compiled
with / without "-fno-automatic") is almost the same (only the size
of the text segments is slightly different).
With each variable that is initialized by a DATA statement the size
of the executables grows. 
So the linker seems to be intelligent enough to allocate the appropriate
memory at run time when it is possible.
I don't know whether or not the DJGPP-linker shows the same bahaviour.
 
Jens


> 
>     Second, and more important is the executable size.  As with
> many fortran programs, I need to compile with a -fno-automatic
> option.  Since there is no recursion, this is no real limitation,
> except that the executable size grows proportionally with the
> runtime size.  Shouldn't the storage go in a .bss section, which
> is created and zeroed at load time, or does DPMI prevent this
> somehow.  Loading a 30MB file off the disk is just too slow.  I
> seem to remember seeing a gzip based loader which would probably
> help, but the link step would still be very slow.  Is there a way
> to avoid storing all the zero bytes on the disk
> 
> Thanks,
> 	Gary
> 


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