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From: evans@syd.dit.CSIRO.AU (Bruce.Evans)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: bcc bug/feature
Message-ID: <1991Jun27.101915.26787@syd.dit.CSIRO.AU>
Date: 27 Jun 91 10:19:15 GMT
References: <33827@usc.edu>
Organization: CSIRO Division of Info Tech, Sydney, Australia
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In article <33827@usc.edu> kjh@pollux.usc.edu (Kenneth J. Hendrickson) writes:
>While trying to compile a particularly large program (nethack 3.0i), bcc
>chokes on one of the files in the preprocessing stage.  The error
>message is 'compiler out of memory'.
>
>I chmem'ed bcc, gld, and sc to larger values, but this didn't help.  I

It's a silly limit in sc (also in as and ld, but not so limiting). The
limit is 0x0001FE00. To fix it, find this number in the sc binary (there's
only one) and edit it. Also, chmem sc larger to match.

>Since I don't have source, I can't make this compiler usable.  Perhaps

The patch is quite easy to find by running sc under mdb because sc contains
a symbol table.
-- 
Bruce Evans		evans@syd.dit.csiro.au