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> From: VBORMC::"MACRO32@WKUVX1.BITNET" "MAIL-11 Daemon"  8-OCT-1992 07:46:28.80
> To:   MACRO32@WKUVX1.BITNET
> CC:   system@EIMONI.TUWIEN.AC.AT
> Subj: VAX and Alpha: differences in image size for same program
>
> 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

You are talking about whether or not the linker caused the pages
to be Demand Zero Pages or not.

> 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.

Without going into detail, my guess is that you had it compiled/linked against
 one
of the Field Test versions, since this is "Old Stuff".

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

        Yaacov
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