Re: [Mingw-users] File too big/too many sections

[Earnie B. <ea...@us...>]

On Sun, Sep 30, 2012 at 10:18 AM, Day, Julian <jc...@ma...> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've been looking to add serialization to my project via boost's
> serialization library.  This was working for a time, but as I added
> serialization capabilities to more and more classes, I eventually hit a
> wall, and could not compile my project anymore:
>
> c:/mingw/bin/../lib/gcc/mingw32/4.6.1/../../../../mingw32/bin/as.exe:
> obj\Debug\engine\serialization\source\TemplateSerialization.o: too many
> sections (37616)
> C:\Users\Julian\AppData\Local\Temp\ccWiA9Ih.s: Assembler messages:
> C:\Users\Julian\AppData\Local\Temp\ccWiA9Ih.s: Fatal error: can't write
> obj\Debug\engine\serialization\source\TemplateSerialization.o: File too big
> c:/mingw/bin/../lib/gcc/mingw32/4.6.1/../../../../mingw32/bin/as.exe:
> obj\Debug\engine\serialization\source\TemplateSerialization.o: too many
> sections (37616)
> C:\Users\Julian\AppData\Local\Temp\ccWiA9Ih.s: Fatal error: can't close
> obj\Debug\engine\serialization\source\TemplateSerialization.o: File too big
> Process terminated with status 1 (5 minutes, 28 seconds)
> 0 errors, 0 warnings
>
> Has anyone had this sort of error before?  I do have a lot of types of
> objects that need to be serialized (a few hundred classes, anyway), but it
> seems like the build system should be able to handle the code generated in
> this sort of situation.  Is there something I'm likely doing wrong?

You've probably hit a hard memory limit such that the object image is
greater than 2GB.  There is no work around for a hard limit other than
to reduce the size of the object is some fashion.

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