Re: g++ or ld issue?

[Bob Proulx]

Hello Keith,

Keith Clifford wrote:
> Parma_Polyhera_Library::Init::Init() has been fixed up incorrectly. So if
> this is an ld issue, how do I send libppl.a (27 MB) to you? Using gdb I
> manually fixed the call using the offset information from memory2.o and
> everything worked properly as far as I could tell.

Oh, I forgot to add something else that is very important.  In your
message you included several large binary blobs of image002.jpg (3.5K),
libgmp.a (1.0M), libgmpxx.a (46K), libppl_tests.a (1.8M), memory2.o
(1.0M).  The total size of the email was 3.9M.  That is way too large
for sending to a mailing list with a lot of subscribers.

I am sure you didn't realize they were so large.  Or that they are
mostly useless.  But please avoid doing that again in the future.
Binary blobs are mostly useless to anyone who isn't on your same
computer system and on exactly the same machine that you compiled
those upon.  The hundreds of subscribers to the mailing won't be able
to do anything with them.  They are not useful in the email archive of
the discussions.  They just take up bandwidth.  And the mailing list
produces a huge amount of bandwidth already.

So as a friendly hint if you discuss this problem with MinGW or Cygwin
please don't start by sending them several megabytes of binary blobs.
It doesn't make a good first impression.  Simply describe the problem
and start the discussion about it.

Bob

Speaking as one of the mailing list administrators.