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authorToon Moene <toon@moene.indiv.nluug.nl>2002-06-28 21:58:32 +0200
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news.texi: Mention 2 Gbyte limit on 32-bit targets for arrays explicitly in news on g77-3.1.
2002-06-28 Toon Moene <toon@moene.indiv.nluug.nl> * news.texi: Mention 2 Gbyte limit on 32-bit targets for arrays explicitly in news on g77-3.1. From-SVN: r55075
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diff --git a/gcc/f/ChangeLog b/gcc/f/ChangeLog
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@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2002-06-28 Toon Moene <toon@moene.indiv.nluug.nl>
+
+ * 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 <neil@daikokuya.co.uk>
* lang-specs.h: Use cc1 for traditional preprocessing.
diff --git a/gcc/f/news.texi b/gcc/f/news.texi
index 973f6a7..033883b 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})