stever@Octopus.COM (Steve Resnick ) (09/28/90)
In article <e8N5P1w163w@turbo.atl.ga.us> greg@turbo.atl.ga.us writes: >I'm using TC++ (actually tcc.exe) and on compiling a program, I keep >getting the error message : "Segment _TEXT exceeds 64K". I'm using the >large memory model. Why is this a problem?? I thought the large memory >model allowed my program to access over 64k??? Any ideas on what is >causing this and how do I fix it?? > In Turbo C, the compiler assigns _TEXT segments as <filename>_TEXT when using large model. Are you sure you're using large model? If so, then the next likely cause is that the compiled file generated a code segment (<filename>_TEXT) larger than 64K. This can happen in large model when the code for a single source file is large. Try breaking your source file into 2 or more smaller files and recompile. That should do it. Cheers! Steve -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- steve.resnick@f105.n143.z1.FIDONET.ORG - or - apple!camphq!105!steve.resnick Flames, grammar errors, spelling errrors >/dev/nul ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
prk@planet.bt.co.uk (Peter Knight) (09/28/90)
greg@turbo.atl.ga.us (Greg Montgomery) writes: >I'm using TC++ (actually tcc.exe) and on compiling a program, I keep >getting the error message : "Segment _TEXT exceeds 64K". I'm using the >large memory model. Why is this a problem?? I thought the large memory >model allowed my program to access over 64k??? Any ideas on what is >causing this and how do I fix it?? The large model of most MS-DOS C compilers can only cope with each object file (in Turbo's case this may not be written to disk, so strictly isn't a file....) being less than 64K. To make bigger programs, you need to compile bits of the code seperately, and then link them together to form your completed program, which may be greater than 64k. Try reading the Microsoft C compiler documentation, if you can get hold of it. Peter Knight BT Research #include <std.disclaimer>