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From: bob@accuvax.nwu.edu (Bob Hablutzel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: MPW LINK error - Global data area size.
Message-ID: <10050058@accuvax.nwu.edu>
Date: 12 Dec 88 13:54:47 GMT
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Organization: Northwestern U, Evanston IL, USA
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>I'm trying to link some objectcode and got a link error :
>Size of global data area: 88014
>link:Error More than 32,768 bytes of global variables : 88014
>etc ...
>I tried to use the '-ss 100000' option but it did not help (.. should it ..?)
>Any one outthere have any idea that could help ?
>(I'm using Mac Se with MPW version 2.0.2 )
>thanx in advance .

As far as I know, MPW doesn't allow more than 32768 bytes of global variables.
It sounds like you probably have a large array allocated in the globals - 
you might have to use the memory manager and allocate a pointer for these
arrays.

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Bob Hablutzel	BOB@NUACC.ACNS.NWU.EDU