news.texi: Mention 2 Gbyte limit on 32-bit targets for arrays explicitly in news...

2002-06-28  Toon Moene  <toon@moene.indiv.nluug.nl>

	* news.texi: Mention 2 Gbyte limit on 32-bit targets
	for arrays explicitly in news on g77-3.1.

From-SVN: r55075

diff --git a/gcc/f/ChangeLog b/gcc/f/ChangeLog
index fa3128ca8735ea7356cd96f76154bc63ad1960a4..4c8f42ca31276cdc7a9e21f9a89996fec8b61a1f 100644 (file)
--- a/gcc/f/ChangeLog
+++ b/gcc/f/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2002-06-28  Toon Moene  <toon@moene.indiv.nluug.nl>
+
+       * news.texi: Mention 2 Gbyte limit on 32-bit targets
+       for arrays explicitly in news on g77-3.1.
+
 Thu Jun 20 21:56:34 2002  Neil Booth  <neil@daikokuya.co.uk>
 
        * lang-specs.h: Use cc1 for traditional preprocessing.

diff --git a/gcc/f/news.texi b/gcc/f/news.texi
index 973f6a7ac96c83472de0691cf10e6ad2ad287438..033883bb16a1276833ae1e9f544d6523d3038f05 100644 (file)
--- a/gcc/f/news.texi
+++ b/gcc/f/news.texi
@@ -209,11 +209,12 @@ prog.f:2:
                    ^
 Array `a' at (^) is too large to handle
 @end smallexample
-because 140 000 000 reals is larger than the largest bit-extent that can be
+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.
-Note: On GNU/Linux systems one has to compile programs that occupy more
-than 1 Gbyte statically, i.e.@: @code{g77 -static ...}.
+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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 Based on work done by Juergen Pfeifer (@email{juergen.pfeifer@@gmx.net})