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From: etxmesa@eos.ericsson.se (Michael Salmon)
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Subject: Re: HELP:  _BSS : segment/group exceeds 64k
Message-ID: <1991Jun20.121747.5541@ericsson.se>
Date: 20 Jun 91 12:17:47 GMT
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In article <1991Jun19.210227.18998@eik.ii.uib.no>, Thor Hovden writes:
> On compiling a good deal of source code, I got this error which I do not
> quite understand;
> 
>   _BSS : segment/group exceeds 64k
> 
> The source has previously been compiled flawless on a UNIX system, but
> now as I try to compile it with Turbo C on a MSDOS, it fails.  The code
> is pretty generic.
> 
> I believe it has something to do with the memory model, and has tried
> compiling with LARGE memory model, but it fails.

Try compiling it with the huge model, it still may fail but there at least 
every file (I think) has its own segment.

Michael Salmon
L.M.Ericsson
Stockholm

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