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From: elric AT wheel DOT ucdavis DOT edu (Jeffrey Taylor)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: ar seems not to work
Date: 12 Apr 1996 16:37:53 GMT
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Charles Brasted (cbrasted AT physics DOT adelaide DOT edu DOT au) wrote:
: Hi all,

: I have been coding away happily for the past fortnight with v2, gcc and as work
: fine, however I have recently downloaded xlib, jlib and allegro and when the
: maker gets to ar libfile.a lots.o of.o stuff.o it seems to hang.  The
: machine needs a soft boot.  Obviously this sucks as I can't use libx,libj or
: liballegro....  any ideas?  I read about the machine hanging with stubify
: (in the FAQ), well there is no virus on my machine, or so my checker tells
: me.

ar is a real memory hog.  You may not be hanging but just doing a lot of 
swapping.  Of course, ar may be exhausting memory in a particularly 
nasting way.  I suggest using several libraries instead of one big one.

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