To: Marios Siormanolakis <sior AT i50s18 DOT ira DOT uka DOT de>
Cc: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu, sior AT ira DOT uka DOT de
Subject: Re: Problem with ld.exe version 2.5.2 
Date: Tue, 07 Feb 95 11:14:17 +0200
From: "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>

> ld -v -o test test.o -L../lib -lmms
>
> ld version 2.5.2 (with BFD 2.5)
> ../lib/libmms.a: could not read symbols: Memory exhausted
>
> libmms.a contains 28 object-files
>	nm libmms.a > log
> log is ~32Kb and ~1390 lines so this lib contains about 1330 symbols
>
> If I remove 1 object of libmms
>	nm libmms.a >log1
>	log1 is ~30Kb and ~1290 lines
> there's no problem (only some unresolved symbols... as expected).
>
> Are there any restrictions about library sizes or #symbols?

How large is libmms.a?  Was ot compiled with -g or -pg or
without them?