problems linking large files

[Conor P. Cahill]

>I have encountered this with two versions of ld (ISC and UPORT)
>on a large software package.  I concluded that the problem was
>the number of externs in my software:  I successfully corrected
>
>a properly written linker should size its tables and files
>dynamically, and such large

and a properly written program won't use much in the way of
global variables :-}

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