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Re: gcc: turning off large-address awareness
On Sat, Apr 14, 2012 at 01:21:25PM -0400, Ken Brown wrote:
>On 4/14/2012 12:37 PM, Earnie Boyd wrote:
>> On Sat, Apr 14, 2012 at 7:52 AM, Ken Brown wrote:
>>> For testing purposes, I'd like to build without large-address awareness.
>>> What's the right way to do that? I tried
>>>
>>> LDFLAGS=-Wl,--no-large-address-aware
>>>
>>> and
>>>
>>> LDFLAGS=-Wl,--disable-large-address-aware
>>>
>>> but both resulted in "unrecognized option" errors from ld.
>>
>> You specify --large-address-aware if you want it and don't specify if
>> you don't want it.
>
>Sorry, I should have explained more clearly what the issue is. Cygwin's
>gcc specifies --large-address-aware by default:
>
>$ gcc -dumpspecs | grep large
> %{mwindows:--subsystem windows} %{mconsole:--subsystem console}
>%{!mno-cygwin:%{!mno-use-libstdc-wrappers: --wrap _Znwj --wrap _Znaj
> --wrap _ZdlPv --wrap _ZdaPv --wrap _ZnwjRKSt9nothrow_t --wrap
>_ZnajRKSt9nothrow_t --wrap _ZdlPvRKSt9nothrow_t --wrap
>_ZdaPvRKSt9nothrow_t }} %{shared: %{mdll: %eshared and mdll are not
>compatible}} %{shared: --shared} %{mdll:--dll} %{static:-Bstatic}
>%{!static:-Bdynamic} %{shared|mdll: --enable-auto-image-base -e
>%{mno-cygwin:_DllMainCRTStartup@12}
>%{!mno-cygwin:__cygwin_dll_entry@12}}
>%{!mno-cygwin:--dll-search-prefix=cyg %{!shared: %{!mdll:
>--large-address-aware --tsaware}}}
>
>I'm trying to override this default.
You're right that there isn't a way to disable --large-address-aware
but, since it's part of the specs, I'm not sure what would take
precedence if there was a --disable* option.
You could try using the above to create your own spec file and use
that on the command line for gcc, cumbersome as it is.
cgf
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