Date:	Mon, 30 Jul 2001 08:53:50 +0300 (IDT)
From:	Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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To:	"Rafal Maj (Raf256)" <raf256 AT go2 DOT pl>
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Subject:	Re: DJGPP limitations ?
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On Mon, 30 Jul 2001, Rafal Maj (Raf256) wrote:

> I think that DJGPP is the best C++ compiler :-) but, is it good for making
> large projects ? Will it be possible to compile such big projects like i.e.
> total of 500,000 lines (about 1 instruction in 1 line) + 50,000 functions +
> 1,000 classes and about 20 MB .EXE file ? I'm asking only for curiosity :-)

DJGPP is routinely used to build large projects such as Emacs (about
400K lines) and GDB (about 800K lines).  I don't think I've seen 20MB
.exe files, but I don't see any reason why you couldn't have them.

The only limitation is the amount of available virtual memory.

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