Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcvax!hp4nl!swivax!jan
From: jan@swivax.UUCP (Jan Wielemaker)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: CV problems on ST with large programs (NEED HELP)
Message-ID: <1287@swisun.swivax.UUCP>
Date: 21 May 89 21:07:19 GMT
Reply-To: jan@swivax.UUCP ()
Organization: SWI, UvA, Amsterdam
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A while ago I submitted an article to this newgroup describing problems
with the ST-1.1 standard ACK compiler on large programs.  I turns out
that if an executable has more than 4Kbytes of relocation info attached
to it it starts to act strange, usually crashing before reaching main().
Also, with these large programs `cv' sometimes crashes.  Enlarging the
memory areas for all passes of the compiler didn't help.  A few days
hacking indicates `cv' as the most likely cause of the trouble.

   - Anyone who can confirm similar problems with large programs (large
     means a lot of relocation, not so much big memory areas)?
   - Anyone has a patch for this?
   - Anyone who has source of `cv', so I can continue my research (I don't
     want to buy the entire compiler source for this)?

Any help is welcome!

	Jan