Object file for Module is too large

[FX]

Hi Alison,

This issue is not specific to Fortran, but it's specific to Darwin  
(you say that "the large object files have been observed on many other  
platforms", but could you give a list of such platforms?):

$ cat a.c
int x[9999999] = { 0 };
$ gcc -c a.c && ls -lh a.o
-rw-r--r--  1 fx  wheel    38M May 12 13:43 a.o
$ size a.o
__TEXT	__DATA	__OBJC	others	dec	hex
0	39999996	0	0	39999996	26259fc


while on x86_64-linux, I get:

$ cat a.c
int x[9999999] = { 0 };
$ gcc -c a.c && ls -lh a.o
-rw-r--r-- 1 fx fx 959 May 12 13:44 a.o
$ size a.o
    text	   data	    bss	    dec	    hex	filename
       0	      0	39999996	39999996	26259fc	a.o


The different between the two is between .bss (x86_64-linux) and .data  
(darwin). I don't know enough about Mach-O to tell if it's a bug or a  
feature :)

FX