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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).

  It sounds like there is a very large global array (hash table?) in
the agrep source- that's what usually creates sparse executables.
In that case, you'll need to use ORCA's large memory model.

>    Is there some flag I should be setting?  Or maybe just get a newer version
>of ORCA?  :)

  Well, you definitely should get ORCA/C 2.0 when it comes out; C 1.2
had some nasty problems.

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