From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,4fe4dfa1b8acdbe4 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Chris Morgan Subject: Re: gnat310p on NT Date: 1998/08/16 Message-ID: <873eawffz4.fsf@mihalis.ix.netcom.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 381834589 Sender: cm@mihalis.ix.netcom.com References: <01bdc744$cef04bc0$0e2915c0@w95> <0QXRrq2x9GA.123@samson.airnet.net> Organization: Linux Hackers Unlimited X-NETCOM-Date: Sun Aug 16 10:22:26 PM CDT 1998 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1998-08-16T22:22:26-05:00 List-Id: dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) writes: > As I say, the conditions vary. In the case of the Realia COBOL compiler, > the code generator was a single 35,000 line file. Not because, contrary > to typical uninformed opinion, COBOL has no nice way of breaking things up > into multiple files, but because only one person ever worked on this file > (me) and it took only 20 seconds to compile on a slowish (386 25 MHz) PC > which was quite acceptable. "When I were a lad" our Ada compiler wouldn't have compiled such a file as it seemed to have a hard limit of 32767 lines in a source file. I found this out the hard way. Of course it would spend a long time thinking about longer files before giving up, but then it was on a VAX. Twenty seconds wasn't long enough for "hello world" if my memory serves me correctly. "you tell kids today and they WONT believe you". ;) Chris -- Chris Morgan http://www.netcom.com/~mihalis