VAX and Alpha: differences in image size for same program

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From: Franz Schoenbauer Computer Scien...
Date: Wed, 07 Oct 1992 21:23

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I've recently worked on an alpha and written a programm in MACRO.
I had a
x:      .blkb   16*1024*1024
statement and whoa! my image file had over 32000 blocks !

On the vax if you had that .blkb statement, the image file was just a
couple of blocks and (i believe) the image activator would create those
pages when you ran the image. On alpha it seems to be the linker who
preallocates them. Can this behaviour be modified ?

I have no "real" access to the alpha system, i can only put up
benchmark programs and have them compiled, linked and executed,
so please forgive me if a simple $ help link or something similar
would have told me waht to do.

Thanks, Franz.


Franz Schoenbauer, Tech. Univ. Vienna,    º  schoenbauer@eimoni.tuwien.ac.at
Resselg. 3/188  A-1040, Vienna, Austria   º  +43(1)58801 ext. 4131

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Subject: VAX and Alpha: differences in image size for same program
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