[Fwd: [Fortran, trunk, committed] Make news message about allowed array sizes for g77-3.1 clearer.]

[Toon Moene <toon at moene dot indiv dot nluug dot nl>]

Mark,

Is this one OK for 3.1.1 too ?

http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-cvs/2002-06/msg00887.html

Thanks in advance,

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• 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.
• Envelope-to: toon@moene.indiv.nluug.nl
• 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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