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In article <1992Dec21.160930.1472@r-node.gts.org> taob@r-node.gts.org
(Brian Tao) writes:

>    Soenke, I tried out your new 'cc' on the agrep (approximate grep) source
>files I downloaded from comp.sources.unix.  Just as an exercise, I unpacked
>all the files and then did 'cc -O -v *.c'.  To my surprise, all the source
>files (about a dozen of them) compiled without a single error under GNO/
>ORCA 1.2, but that's it.  Nothing was linked so I didn't get an 'agrep'
>executable.  I tried 'cc *.o' afterwards (which started to link them),
>but it gave an error about a code segment being larger than a bank.  It
>gave me a 1.2-meg (!) binary anyway.  I can run it, but nothing happens 
>(doesn't crash the machine either).  I should also point out the resulting
>binary is very sparse (only takes up about 80K or so of disk space).
>
>    Is there some flag I should be setting?  Or maybe just get a newer version
>of ORCA?  :)

Brian, your problem actually has nothing to do with cc, it's the fault of
Orca/C.  With the current (1.2/1.3) Orca/C, if code size will exceed one
bank (64k) you have to segment the code into managable chunks yourself.
This means inserting a 'segment "BLAH      ";' (always good to pad
the segments to a full 10 chars, makes 'em look more readable on a dump)
at the beginning of the source file.  The code in that source file will
now be placed in a seperate load segment.

You also seem to have anther problem, which is a LOT of static space
allocated by agrep.  If you have a 1.2mb binary of which 1.1mb or so
is empty, that means you have a LOT of static space being allocated.
What that means is you need to use the large memory model (#pragma 
memorymodel 1) so you can have arrays and such that are greater than 64k.

Hope this helps.

>-- Real name: Brian Tao (Dept. of Exobiology, University of Toronto)
>-- Preferred: 90taobri@chasm.scar.utoronto.ca (checked daily)

As soon as I finish dmake, porting stuff should be quite a bit easier,
what with dmake and cc ... 
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