From: Ian Chapman Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: :Memory Exhausted Date: Tue, 24 Mar 1998 07:31:06 -0500 Organization: Nortel Lines: 41 Message-ID: <3517A78A.3C12@nortel.ca> References: Reply-To: ichapman AT nortel DOT ca NNTP-Posting-Host: bcarib90.bnr.ca Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Precedence: bulk Eli, thanks for the reply. Sorry that I've mis-lead you when I said that it took over 1 hour to compile I intended only to indicate that it was a big job. That is 50 .cpp files in 460Kbytes plus well over 50 headers. I did not measure the total No of lines as I have no complaints with compile time. Now that I have dj201 the linker does Hello world quite fast too. The linker not being able to do the job is what I'd like to focus on. Go32-V2 reported RAM 17747K and Swap space 3901K I went into rhide and shelled to dos RAM 16115K and Swap space 93K I repeated the test several times and always had lots of RAM but Swap space was down to zero a couple of times. Of interest rhide seems to hold all the sources in memory. However closing these files from the rhide window and doing a simple link from rhide did not help the Memory Exhausted situation. Binutils from info is version v2.8.1 and ar.exe is dated 2-16-97. Hope you can help me, Regards Ian. Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > > I`m running from rhide in a dos > > window under win95. When I link I get the following error message from > > the linker:- > > > > Error filename.o: could not read symbols: Memory exhausted. > > Please report the relevant details: how large is the library, what > does go32-v2 print when invoked with no arguments (under rhide in the > DOS box), and how much memory does ld consume before dying. Without > these details, it is very hard to know whether this problem is real or > related to your system configuration. > > Also, please tell which version of Binutils you are using.