Date: Wed, 12 Jun 1996 08:34:32 +0200 (IST) From: Eli Zaretskii To: Juergen Erhard Cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Subject: Re: ar probs (size) In-Reply-To: <31BD8618.624EF152@laden.ilk.de> Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On Tue, 11 Jun 1996, Juergen Erhard wrote: > 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... Please reproduce the problem (or wait until it happens again) and post the exact messages you get from ld. I don't think such problems where reported previously wrt to the v2 ld.exe (did you search the DJGPP mail archives? the URL is in the FAQ), and without the error message there is no clue as to what goes wrong.