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- From: uugblum@venus.lerc.nasa.gov (VMScluster Administrator)
- Subject: Re: ballooning EXE size
- Message-ID: <29DEC199216584048@venus.lerc.nasa.gov>
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- References: <01GSUT89O7JK000J0I@XRT.UPENN.EDU>
- Date: 29 Dec 1992 16:58 EDT
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- In article <01GSUT89O7JK000J0I@XRT.UPENN.EDU>, BUHLE@XRT.UPENN.EDU ("E. Loren Buhle, Jr. [-662-3084]", 215) writes...
- >I have a problem with the size of an executable going from ~1,000 blocks to
- >something on the order of 75,000 blocks.
- >
- [stuff deleted]
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- >Eventually, the addition of the simplest code causes the executable to go from
- >1,100 blocks to ~76,000 blocks. Looking at the LINK map, the size of my
- >interface modules are quite small. Remember, this is FORTRAN and most of the
- >memory is statically allocated.
- >
- [stuff deleted]
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- >Dr. E. Loren Buhle, Jr. INTERNET: BUHLE@XRT.UPENN.EDU
- >University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine Phone: 215-662-3084
- >Rm 440A, 3401 Walnut St., Philadelphia, PA 19104-6228 FAX: 215-349-5978
-
- I assisted one of the users here with this problem about a month ago.
-
- The problem with a program growing from a small to a large executable size
- by making a small change in source code is caused by the linker demand zero
- compression not being used when a certain image section count is exceeded.
- This can be corrected by specifying a ISD_MAX value of 200 to 300 in a
- link options file. See the DSNlink article entitled "Image File Grows Much
- Larger After Adding Small Amount of Code".
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