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- From: Yaacov Fenster @ISO 882-3153 08-Oct-1992 0821
- Newsgroups: vmsnet.internals
- Subject: RE: VAX and Alpha: differences in image size for same program
- Message-ID: <9210080619.AA21291@vbormc.vbo.dec.com>
- Date: Thu, 8 Oct 92 07:19:30 MET
- Organization: Macro32<==>Vmsnet.Internals Gateway
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- > From: VBORMC::"MACRO32@WKUVX1.BITNET" "MAIL-11 Daemon" 8-OCT-1992 07:46:28.80
- > To: MACRO32@WKUVX1.BITNET
- > CC: system@EIMONI.TUWIEN.AC.AT
- > Subj: VAX and Alpha: differences in image size for same program
- >
- > I've recently worked on an alpha and written a programm in MACRO.
- > I had a
- > x: .blkb 16*1024*1024
- > statement and whoa! my image file had over 32000 blocks !
- >
- > On the vax if you had that .blkb statement, the image file was just a
- > couple of blocks and (i believe) the image activator would create those
- > pages when you ran the image. On alpha it seems to be the linker who
-
- You are talking about whether or not the linker caused the pages
- to be Demand Zero Pages or not.
-
- > preallocates them. Can this behaviour be modified ?
- >
- > I have no "real" access to the alpha system, i can only put up
- > benchmark programs and have them compiled, linked and executed,
- > so please forgive me if a simple $ help link or something similar
- > would have told me waht to do.
-
- Without going into detail, my guess is that you had it compiled/linked against
- one
- of the Field Test versions, since this is "Old Stuff".
-
- >
- > Thanks, Franz.
- >
- >
- > Franz Schoenbauer, Tech. Univ. Vienna, : schoenbauer@eimoni.tuwien.ac.at
- > Resselg. 3/188 A-1040, Vienna, Austria : +43(1)58801 ext. 4131
- >
-
- Yaacov
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