From: j DOT aldrich6 AT genie DOT com
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Date: Wed, 12 Jun 96 03:46:00 UTC 0000
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Subject: Re: ar probs (size)

Reply to message 5615699    from JAE AT LADEN DOT ILK on 06/11/96 10:43AM


>Can it be ar has problems with LARGE .a files? Like
>SWORD 2.10b compiled with -g? Gives 1.8M .a file...
>and sometimes, after compiling *some* modules, and
>linking... ld chokes. Which might mean that the
>problem is ld's, not ar's.
>
>Any ideas? Unfortunately, I can't recall the exact message
>ld gives...

Could be that ld is running out of stack space.  Try stubediting it to
use a 512K or even a 1MB stack.  You may also want to increase
the transfer buffer, if you haven't already, because you might gain
some speed increase from that large a project.

John