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Re: Language-independent functions-as-trees representation
- From: dewar at gnat dot com (Robert Dewar)
- To: dewar at gnat dot com, neil at daikokuya dot co dot uk
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org, jason at redhat dot com
- Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2002 17:35:17 -0400 (EDT)
- Subject: Re: Language-independent functions-as-trees representation
> > How can that be? 32 bits = 4 gigabytes of sources for one compilation. Pretty
> > hard to believe that there is any program that requires anything close to
> > that.
>
> As my original message said, there's a column too.
Of course! That's why my message said 4 gigabytes of sources and not
four gigalines.
But Four thousand million characrters of sourcers is a heck of a lot.
This is typically a hundred million lines of source. I doubt there are
any programs in existence where a single compilation requires a hundred
million lines of source!