PRODUCT  :  Borland C++                            NUMBER  :  725
  VERSION  :  All
       OS  :  DOS
     DATE  :  August 20, 1992                          PAGE  :  1/2

    TITLE  :  Table Limit Exceeded




  Occasionally TLINK will generate a "Table limit exceeded"
  message.  This message is generally caused when an internal
  linker table containing symbols overflows.  This table is
  referred to as the symbol table.  The symbol table starts out at
  80K bytes and grows dynamically up to a limit of 256K bytes.  The
  reason for this limit is one of speed.

  There are several things that contribute to the symbol table
  size--public names, external names, segment names, imported names
  (Windows only) and group names.  Including debug information also
  increases the table size by 4 bytes for each symbol in the table.
  The usual major contributors to the filling of the symbol table
  are the public and external names.

  There are several approaches to reducing the size of the symbol
  table.  You can try any one or a combination of all of them.  How
  many you need to implement is going to be dependent on the amount
  of symbol space you require beyond 256K bytes.

  The different approaches are as follows:

     1.  Declare all functions and variables that are not used by
         another module to have static duration.

     2.  Reduce the size of libraries used.  All symbols in all
         modules in all libraries being linked are put into the
         symbol table whether that module is used or not.  You can
         significantly reduce the number of symbols in the symbol
         table by removing any unused modules from your libraries.
         This approach also applies to the default libraries.

     3.  A small decrease in the symbol space used can be gained by
         shortening the names used since the variable name is part
         of the symbol table entry.

     4.  You can store like types in arrays rather than declaring
         individual names for each variable.  For instance,
         declaring 5 integers will generate 5 corresponding symbol
         table entries.  Declaring an integer array and storing
         these 5 integers in the array will generate a single
         symbol table entry for the array name rather than each
         individual integer variable.














  PRODUCT  :  Borland C++                            NUMBER  :  725
  VERSION  :  All
       OS  :  DOS
     DATE  :  August 20, 1992                          PAGE  :  2/2

    TITLE  :  Table Limit Exceeded




     5.  If you have followed the above suggestion and are still
         experiencing a 'Table Limit Exceeded' message, please
         contact Borland Technical Support.

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