lint on V.3

[Conor P. Cahill]

In article <1394 at redsox.bsw.com>, campbell at redsox.bsw.com (Larry Campbell) writes:
> 
> I have run into the same EXTREMELY IRRITATING problem with Interactive 386/ix
> V2.0.1 (derived from SVR3.2).  When I called Interactive to complain, they
> said "how big is your program" and when I said "oh, maybe, 75K lines of code"
> they sort of fell over backwards and said "oh, wow, man, that's huge".
> Gimme a break.  750K lines is rather big.  75K lines is pretty humdrum stuff.
> 

I too would fall over backwards if you told me that ONE of your source files
is 75K lines of code.  That is a HUMONGOUS ?sp? amount of code to be in 
one source file and probably causes great headaches to support.  How long
does it take the editor to start up?  5 minutes?

However, I think that the system programs (cc, lint, ld, etc) should not
have any hard-coded limits on the number of lines, number of symbols, 
or any other such entity.  They should be able to malloc() whatever they
need and should only have a problem when the malloc() fails.


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