From: Toon Moene Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2002 19:58:32 +0000 (+0200) Subject: news.texi: Mention 2 Gbyte limit on 32-bit targets for arrays explicitly in news... X-Git-Tag: releases/gcc-3.3.0~4060 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=ba18d6d38bdad235a43eb8bdefa417031d5f042b;p=thirdparty%2Fgcc.git news.texi: Mention 2 Gbyte limit on 32-bit targets for arrays explicitly in news on g77-3.1. 2002-06-28 Toon Moene * news.texi: Mention 2 Gbyte limit on 32-bit targets for arrays explicitly in news on g77-3.1. From-SVN: r55075 --- diff --git a/gcc/f/ChangeLog b/gcc/f/ChangeLog index fa3128ca8735..4c8f42ca3127 100644 --- a/gcc/f/ChangeLog +++ b/gcc/f/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,8 @@ +2002-06-28 Toon Moene + + * news.texi: Mention 2 Gbyte limit on 32-bit targets + for arrays explicitly in news on g77-3.1. + Thu Jun 20 21:56:34 2002 Neil Booth * lang-specs.h: Use cc1 for traditional preprocessing. diff --git a/gcc/f/news.texi b/gcc/f/news.texi index 973f6a7ac96c..033883bb16a1 100644 --- a/gcc/f/news.texi +++ b/gcc/f/news.texi @@ -209,11 +209,12 @@ prog.f:2: ^ 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 +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.@: @code{g77 -static ...}. +have been converted to byte addresses. Therefore this check has been removed, +and the limit is now 2 Gbyte of memory (around 530 000 000 REALs). +Note: On GNU/Linux systems one has to compile and link programs that occupy +more than 1 Gbyte statically, i.e.@: @code{g77 -static ...}. @item Based on work done by Juergen Pfeifer (@email{juergen.pfeifer@@gmx.net})