Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!apple!bbn!bbn.com!rsalz From: rsalz@bbn.com (Rich Salz) Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix Subject: Re: Ranlib limitations? Message-ID: <1993@prune.bbn.com> Date: 3 Oct 89 15:15:14 GMT References: <1990@prune.bbn.com> Organization: BBN Systems and Technologies Corporation Lines: 15 In <1990@prune.bbn.com> I asked the musical question: > what are the limits to a library that can be succesfully >ranlib'd? Thanks to Sean Faganfor the answer: 2000 symbols It would be nice if ranlib took an error exit instead of silently trashing my library, or nicer yet if it took the BSD strategy of realloc'ing the table as necessary, but I'll settle for at least knowing the limits and splitting my library up. /r$ -- Please send comp.sources.unix-related mail to rsalz@uunet.uu.net. Use a domain-based address or give alternate paths, or you may lose out.