Re: How large file can be processed by the linker "ld"?

[Nick Clifton]

Hi shihhuangti,

> Today, I make the whole project at my office, and the obj generated with 
> opition "-g3", and when final linking, I keep the dbg-info within the 
> exe-file, but failed with the message "memory exhausted", and later I find 
> there is a objfile passed to the linker ld and the file is of size 1.9G.
>
> I want to know it is a bug or not?

No it is not.

> How large file (the upper limit) can be 
> processed by the linker "ld"?

It is limited by the amount of memory/swap space available on your 
system, (and the amount allowed to be used by a single process).

You might like to try adding the "--reduce-memory-overheads" option to 
your linker command line (or "-Wl,--reduce-memory-overheads" to your gcc 
command line if you are using gcc to drive the linker).  This may help.

Cheers
  Nick