From: Toon Moene Date: Sun, 30 Jun 2002 11:00:17 +0000 (+0200) Subject: news.texi: Mention 2 Gbyte limit on 32-bit targets for arrays explicitly in news... X-Git-Tag: releases/gcc-3.1.1~76 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=054458fb6485c45054f57968b68b37178f88e49f;p=thirdparty%2Fgcc.git news.texi: Mention 2 Gbyte limit on 32-bit targets for arrays explicitly in news on g77-3.1. 2002-06-30 Toon Moene * news.texi: Mention 2 Gbyte limit on 32-bit targets for arrays explicitly in news on g77-3.1. From-SVN: r55118 --- diff --git a/gcc/f/ChangeLog b/gcc/f/ChangeLog index 560659c53476..8ae3aad0ac06 100644 --- a/gcc/f/ChangeLog +++ b/gcc/f/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,8 @@ +2002-06-30 Toon Moene + + * news.texi: Mention 2 Gbyte limit on 32-bit targets + for arrays explicitly in news on g77-3.1. + 2002-05-14 Release Manager * GCC 3.1 Released. diff --git a/gcc/f/news.texi b/gcc/f/news.texi index beb5184bfb13..c20934fa816e 100644 --- a/gcc/f/news.texi +++ b/gcc/f/news.texi @@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ @c in the standalone derivations of this file (e.g. NEWS). @set copyrights-news 1995,1996,1997,1998,1999,2000,2001,2002 -@set last-update-news 2002-04-13 +@set last-update-news 2002-06-30 @include root.texi @@ -203,9 +203,10 @@ 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. +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 programs that occupy more than 1 Gbyte statically, i.e.@: @code{g77 -static ...}.