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From: jim@jagubox.gsfc.nasa.gov (Jim Jagielski)
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Subject: Re: A/UX cc compiler
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Date: 15 Nov 90 12:37:22 GMT
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In article <1990Nov15.031150.3997@julius.cs.uiuc.edu> coolidge@cs.uiuc.edu writes:
>J.Pearce@cs.ucl.ac.uk writes:
>>Can anyone make any comments on the status/limitations/bugs of the
>>default cc compiler that comes with A/UX.
>
>The default cc is an OK compiler, but nothing special. Its biggest
>deficiency is that it has fixed-size tables for most everything
>(something it shares with the standard cpp, as, and ld, although
>with ld you seldom if every notice it). This means that large
>systems (gcc, X11, etc) fail with the default cc.
>


Of course, 2.0 doesn't have this problem... it has a flag (-A #) which says
to increase the symbol table size by a factor of #. (as, ld and f77 also
have this)

Now pre-2.0 did have fixed sized tables... and they were kinda meager too.
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