SCO externs ... too many?

[Norman Kohn]

In article <631 at jc3b21.UUCP> davis at jc3b21.UUCP (William J Davis) writes:
>
>   I am current developing a LARGE application using SCO Xenix 2.3.0...
>the loader seems unable to resolve large numbers of external references...

I encountered a similar problem under microport: there obviously is
some sort of limit to symbol table size.

I addressed this by putting related externs into structs defined
in appropriate header files: e.g.,
struct {int a,b;
	char c,d,e;
	} SAMPLE;

Presumably SAMPLE.a is coded as an offset off SAMPLE, and everything
in the struct gets linked up using only a single extern entry
in the linker symbol table.  Moreover, this simplifies tracking
large groups of externs.  For ease of management, I favor putting
related programs (related by use of specific header files)
in their own libraries when possible...

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