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From: robbin@resrch.MoliEnergy.BC.CA (Robbin W. Johnson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Problems with HP9000/500 assembler
Message-ID: <601@resrch.MoliEnergy.BC.CA>
Date: 26 Nov 88 21:21:42 GMT
Reply-To: robbin@resrch.UUCP (Robbin W. Johnson)
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Organization: Moli Energy Ltd., Burnaby, BC, CANADA
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While bring GNU CC up on our 500 I have encountered a problem with the
assembler.  First off, we are running HPUX 5.21 on a 2 CPU 550.

While compiling one of the files auto-magically generated during the
make'ing of cc1, the compiler fatally errors with the following:

  cc -g -DCROSSATARI=1 -DMINIX -c insn-extract.c
  as: /tmp/ctm3CAAa11176: fatal error in line 11312, proctable overflow

(NOTE: the two -D's in the command line do not apply to this source
file.  They come from the make command.)

From the format of the error message, I conclude that the problem is
with the assembler, and not (directly) due to the code being compiled. 
Obviously, there are too many proceedures being declared in the source
file (approx. 267.)  An array of pointer-to-function's is initialized
with 266 of these.

So the big question is - How can I increase the size of "proctable"?
There is nothing in the (meager) documentation that even hints that this
is possible.  I got around the problem by splitting the .c file into two
pieces and then manually compiling and "ld -r"'ing these two into an
insn-extract.o and that worked; but this is not a reasonable solution.

HP?  Anyone?

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