compilation for files > 2Gb
Joe Buck
jbuck@racerx.synopsys.com
Thu Jan 25 13:21:00 GMT 2001
I wrote:
> > 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.
>
> We do:
>
> if (inc->st.st_size > INTTYPE_MAXIMUM (ssize_t))
> {
> cpp_error (pfile, "%s is too large", inc->name);
> goto fail;
> }
> size = inc->st.st_size;
>
> Perhaps the message could be made clearer.
That's good enough as far as I'm concerned.
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