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- From: bevan@cs.man.ac.uk (Stephen J Bevan)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
- Subject: Re: Need new idea to get around sunada 1.0 [Verdix] error
- Message-ID: <BEVAN.92Aug27174554@tiger.cs.man.ac.uk>
- Date: 27 Aug 92 16:45:53 GMT
- References: <1992Aug19.185609.10211@src.honeywell.com>
- <vera.714899225@fanaraaken.Stanford.EDU>
- <1992Aug27.130456.444@verdix.com>
- Sender: pq@cs.man.ac.uk
- Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of Manchester
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- In-reply-to: drew@verdix.com's message of 27 Aug 92 13:04:56 GMT
-
- In article <1992Aug27.130456.444@verdix.com> drew@verdix.com (Drew Johnson) writes:
- It comes down to "how big is too big?" We used to think that subprograms
- like this were "too big". We are revising this because it is apparent
- that this is not the case. Unfortunately, there is always going to be
- a limit to the size of a single body of source that the compiler will
- accept.
-
- Out of interest, why does there have to be a limit other than VM or
- the size of the type used to index arrays?
-
- bevan
-