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What is the Length of Linkage section?
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enrico-sorichetti

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PostPosted: Tue Feb 02, 2010 6:46 pm    Post subject: Reply to: What is the Length of Linkage section?
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does it has any dependency on number of bits in the processor ?


no, it' s just one of the many decisions taken by some committee
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from the link, now we know the limit is 134,213,631 (128MB). But how do we arrive at this magic number.
IBM provides the number; the only way to find out where, exactly, it came from would be to talk to them (if they will tell you). It is exactly 4K and 1 less than 128 megabytes.
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