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From: wendt@segovia.CS.ColoState.Edu (alan l wendt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: BUG in unshared programs on HP-UX
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Date: 25 Aug 89 15:59:40 GMT
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OK, it's not a bug, it's a feature.  The manuals certainly don't go
out of their way to bring it to my attention.  The man page for cc
says of -N:  "for details and system defaults, see ld(1)".  The
slight detail that programs compiled with -N won't execute is not
mentioned.   Neither is this mentioned in the ld(1) entry for -N,
which mostly restates the entry in cc(1).   You have to read most
of the man page for ld(1) to discover this.

And the error message that exec returns is: "not enough space",
which is not amazingly revealing.

Plus, this is a new restriction.  It worked at some time in the past,
and the Icon distribution uses it for some reason.  So I build the
Icon distribution using the hp customization package, and two of the
four executables tell me:  not enough room.  The fine print at the
bottom of the ld(1) page is not the first place I look for answers.

Alan Wendt