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From: decot@hpisod2.HP.COM (Dave Decot)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: HP9000 Pascal Buglist / Wishlist
Message-ID: <16710026@hpisod2.HP.COM>
Date: 5 Oct 89 20:06:05 GMT
References: <2258@mva.cs.liv.ac.uk>
Organization: Hewlett Packard, Cupertino
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> Although this would normally be dismissed as a downright inefficient way
> of building an s800 executable (what's wrong with a malloc at run-time
> ?), this really does highlight the lack of disk quotaing (HP-UX 7.0
> should cure this) - any normal user can fill the disk in less than one
> minute.  Compiling the same program on Series 300 machines results in a
> less dramatic executable size (69K).

If you think that's fast, try (don't really):

   prealloc foo 1000000000

Dave