Re: memory problem

[Tim Prince <timothyprince@sbcglobal.net>]

Deepan wrote:
> Hi,
>   My fortran code compiles fine if i use arrays of size less that 4 GB.
> When i increase the array size to more that 4 GB, the compilation fails
> with the following error. I am running this on 32GB RAM machine.
> 
> $  g77 -O3 MAIN.o write_output.o read_population.o write_population.o
> collide.o initial_conditions.o stream.o communicate.o -o lbm.x
> -I/usr/local/include -L/usr/local/lib -lmpich -lpthread -lrt
> MAIN.o(.text+0x7a): In function `MAIN__':
> : relocation truncated to fit: R_X86_64_PC32 directions_
> read_population.o(.text+0x252): In function `read_population__':

> I guess there must me some option to g77, that will let the program
> use more than 4 GB of memory. 
x86_64 binutils don't support larger static objects. You should have no 
trouble using more memory, just not in a single static object. As g77 
doesn't support allocatable arrays nor Cray pointers, you would have to 
change compilers (e.g. to gfortran) to use either of those methods. 
Remember that g77 support had dwindled before x86_64 was released.