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To: matthew DOT krause AT juno DOT com, djgpp AT delorie DOT com
From: Nate Eldredge <nate AT cartsys DOT com>
Subject: Re: Maximums?
Date: Sun, 31 May 1998 09:45:34 -0700
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At 10:26  5/30/1998 -0400, matthew DOT krause AT juno DOT com wrote:
>Hi. I was wondering:
>a)What is the largest number of object files the linker will accept (or
>does this depend on RAM, HD space etc.)?

No inherent limit. You'll have to find a way to pass them all, though. On
the command line it's limited to 128 characters of args; from a Makefile,
about 16K; from a response file, there's a bug which limits it to about
256K, but will be fixed in the next release.
>
>b)How many objects can I cram into an Allegro datafile?

As many as you want, AFAIK. It may break if your file goes over 2GB due to
DOS limitations.

>c)What's the biggest source file that gcc will compile?

Memory is probably the limitation here: CWSDPMI can't give you more than
512MB of virtual memory, and Windows 64MB :(. But GCC's memory requirement
is mainly dependent on the size of each *function*, unless you compile with -O3.

I wouldn't worry about any of these.

Nate Eldredge
nate AT cartsys DOT com