[Fortran - trunk, committed] Document new treatment of large arrays in the news section.

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

L.S.,

I committed the following to f/news.texi, to document the new ability of
g77 to compile programs with large arrays on 32-bit targets [in the news
section]:

*** news.texi.orig      Fri Oct  5 22:27:05 2001
--- news.texi   Mon Oct 29 16:22:25 2001
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*** 10,14 ****
  @set copyrights-news 1995,1996,1997,1998,1999,2000,2001
  
! @set last-update-news 2001-10-05
  
  @include root.texi
--- 10,14 ----
  @set copyrights-news 1995,1996,1997,1998,1999,2000,2001
  
! @set last-update-news 2001-10-29
  
  @include root.texi
*************** The following information was last updat
*** 156,159 ****
--- 156,180 ----
  @itemize @bullet
  @ifclear USERVISONLY
+ @item
+ g77 used to reject the following program on 32-bit targets:
+ @smallexample
+ PROGRAM PROG
+ DIMENSION A(140 000 000)
+ END
+ @end smallexample
+ with the message:
+ @smallexample
+ prog.f: In program `prog':
+ prog.f:2: 
+          DIMENSION A(140 000 000)
+                    ^
+ 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
+ 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.@: g77 -static ...
+ 
  @item
  Based on work done by Juergen Pfeifer
(@email{juergen.pfeifer@@gmx.net})

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