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From: peter@msinc.msi.com (Peter Blemel)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: AIX V3.1 (RS/6000) linker problems
Message-ID: <129@.msinc.msi.com>
Date: 26 Oct 90 06:11:15 GMT
References: <1990Oct25.024421.7418@onecom>
Organization: Management Sciences, Inc.
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In article <1990Oct25.024421.7418@onecom> john@baldur.uucp (John Brinegar) writes:
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>I have been having problems with the linker under AIX V3.1 (RS/6000).  It
>seems that when linking a large executable (many libraries), the linker
>eats up all paging space and the bind is killed by signal 9. 

While never having encountered this manifestation, I am plagued by another
mean nasty bug. When linking large executables, the linker starts to claim 
that symbols are undefined when in fact they were defined the last time I 
linked the code! If I swap the order of the objects different objects become
undefined while previously undefined objects are now okay.

This happens in my fortran code as well as C code, but mostly occurres when
linking code that uses a lot of symbols (like X11 stuff). I can make it go
away (sometimes) by just #including all of the code in one file. Yick.

Machine :
520, 48mb ram, 128mb paging space, 3001 update applied.

Peter