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From: cnbr10@vaxa.strath.ac.uk
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: Help, cc said "Symbol table overflow"
Message-ID: <1990Dec14.084336.9460@vaxa.strath.ac.uk>
Date: 14 Dec 90 08:43:36 GMT
References: <1990Dec9.184701.22354@polyof.poly.edu>
Organization: Strathclyde University VAX Cluster
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In article <1990Dec9.184701.22354@polyof.poly.edu>, rocky@polyof.poly.edu (A1 rocky shiotsuki (staff) ) writes:
> 
>  Please advice me for my problem.
>  I try to compile a C source code on HP 9000 series 400
>as followed:
>
>        cc -c -g TtyText.c
>then the compiler gave a error message that
>   Symbol table overflow. Try the -Wc,-Ns option.
>
>Ok, I try again with option
>        cc -c -g -Wc,-Ns TtyText.c
>the compiler stil gave me a error that
>   , line 0: warning: Table size specified too small (ignored)
>   Symbol table overflow. Try the -Wc,-Ns option.
>

When it suggests that you use the -Wc,-Ns option it omits to tell you that
you have to supply a symbol table size value: e.g. Try this:

	cc -c -g -Wc,-Ns10000 TtyText.c

Where 10000 is the size of the symbol table...
Try larger values if this is still not enough! :-)

David J.Young
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