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From: pete@Octopus.COM (Pete Holzmann)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms.programmer
Subject: Re: Link problem using CodeView
Message-ID: <1991Mar22.190524.2666@Octopus.COM>
Date: 22 Mar 91 19:05:24 GMT
References: <1991Mar15.022704.24298@oracle.com> <36990004@hpopd.pwd.hp.com> <27643@rouge.usl.edu>
Reply-To: pete@octopus.COM (Pete Holzmann)
Organization: Octopus Enterprises, Cupertino CA
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>> mwick@.com (Mark Wick) /  2:27 am  Mar 15, 1991 /
>>> We have a very large application which we are trying to move to Windows
	      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
	      [and had trouble linking]

> richardh@hpopd.pwd.hp.com (Richard Hancock) writes:
>>We had a similar problem. The work-around (?) is to only selectively compile
>>with the Zi compiler switch, ie. compile only those modules you're 
>>particularly interested in.

pcb@basin04.cacs.usl.edu (Peter C. Bahrs) writes:
>hmmmm...I have an application that is 38,000 lines of code, numerous
				       ^^^^^^^^^^^^
>obj files.  I have no problem and compile under a command.com shell 
>while running windows...
>It works fine.

Your application is medium-large, not very large. You'll know you're at
the very large stage when the linker stops working. When the compiler
runs out of heap space while it is still working its way through your
include files. When you can't debug your program even under Magic CodeView.
THEN you've got a very large application! May you never have to work on
such a beast :-) :-). (I, unfortunately, have and am. Selective use of
/Zi/Od is only the first stage of this particular disease :-))

Pete
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