Conference turris::languages

280.0. "Size of largest VAX/VMS source module" by CHZWHZ::BROWN (Dave Brown DTN 445-7245) Wed Jul 25 1990 14:17

    Here is a compiler/assembler question from an RFP.  Does anyone have an
    idea how I can answer this?  It is not in any manuals that I have look
    at, and it is not in the SPDs.

    "The Proposer shall state the size of the largest program that may be
    compiled or assembled on each CPU in source statements, data areas, and
    number of symbols."
    
    Does anyone know the MACRO assembler limits?  Don't a number of our
    compilers use a common back-end?  Does this common code limit the
    number of symbols?
    
    I don't believe that my answer to this question will effect the
    outcome of this RFP, nor do I believe that my answer will ever be
    validated, but I must answer ...
    
    Surely this kind of question has been asked, and answered, before.
    But where?

    Thanks for your assistance,
    
    Dave

    Just answer "effectively unlimited" to all three questions.
    
    /Bevin

    In the backs of the language manuals you can sometimes find an
    appendix on compiler limits.  It might be safer to check the
    manuals for the languages of interest.
    
    In my time on the Pascal and BLISS projects, the only programs 
    I saw which hit any limits were machine-generated ones, but it
    did happen.
    			-John Bishop