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[Fortran, trunk, committed] Make news message about allowed array sizes for g77-3.1 clearer.
- From: Toon Moene <toon at moene dot indiv dot nluug dot nl>
- To: gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2002 22:02:04 +0200
- Subject: [Fortran, trunk, committed] Make news message about allowed array sizes for g77-3.1 clearer.
- Organization: Moene Computational Physics, Maartensdijk, The Netherlands
L.S.,
Based on e-mails I'm getting lately, I updated the news message about
support for larger-than-512Mb-arrays in g77-3.1 on 32 bit targets.
The new message reads:
because 140 000 000 REALs is larger than the largest bit-extent that can
be
expressed in 32 bits. However, bit-sizes never play a role after
offsets
have been converted to byte addresses. Therefore this check has been
removed,
and the limit is now 2 Gbyte of memory (around 530 000 000 REALs).
Note: On GNU/Linux systems one has to compile and link programs that
occupy
more than 1 Gbyte statically, i.e.@: @code{g77 -static ...}.
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