Date: Mon, 18 Nov 1996 08:11:39 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: timolmst AT cyberramp DOT net
Cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Does LD use extended memory?
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On Sun, 17 Nov 1996 timolmst AT cyberramp DOT net wrote:

> While linking a large program I got the following message from LD :
> 
> MVL408.A : could not read symbols : memory exhausted

This is a known problem with ld.  See section 8.18 of the DJGPP FAQ list 
(available as v2/faq202b.zip from the same place you get DJGPP), it 
offers a couple of work-arounds.

You might also consider upgrading to DJGPP v2.01, which comes with a 
newer version of ld.  I'm told that some (although not all) of such 
problems go away with the new ld.

> This leads me to wonder if LD is trying to use my memory above 1mb.

It does.  The above is just a bug.

> I am using DJGPP v2.0. When I previously was able to link this
> program, I was using DJGPP v1.2.

Are you sure it was not v1.11?  The bug I'm talking about appeared in ld 
from Binutils 2.5.2, and 1.12 uses the same Binutils as 2.0.