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Re: compilation for files > 2Gb
- To: zackw at stanford dot edu (Zack Weinberg)
- Subject: Re: compilation for files > 2Gb
- From: Joe Buck <jbuck at racerx dot synopsys dot com>
- Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 11:51:43 -0800 (PST)
- Cc: egcs at thewrittenword dot com, jakub at redhat dot com (Jakub Jelinek), BLATS at fr dot ibm dot com, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
[ problems with gcc reading multi-gigabyte files because of mmap issues ]
Zack writes:
> Honestly, I cannot think of a legitimate reason why anyone would need
> a C(++) source file that large. I could be persuaded otherwise with
> an example, but until one arises, I don't see any need to support them
> in GCC.
I agree, there are certainly more pressing problems. However, if we
aren't going to support it, ideally GCC should produce a message
describing the problem ("File foobar.h is too large to be mapped into
memory" or some such) rather than just fail mysteriously.