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From: cpcahil@virtech.uucp (Conor P. Cahill)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386,comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: problems linking large files
Keywords: ld
Message-ID: <1991Mar15.150657.7050@virtech.uucp>
Date: 15 Mar 91 15:06:57 GMT
References: <815@metoch.uu.ch> <1991Mar14.140433.4397@ddsw1.MCS.COM>
Organization: Virtual Technologies Inc.
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>I have encountered this with two versions of ld (ISC and UPORT)
>on a large software package.  I concluded that the problem was
>the number of externs in my software:  I successfully corrected
>
>a properly written linker should size its tables and files
>dynamically, and such large

and a properly written program won't use much in the way of
global variables :-}

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