What is the size limit on PDB files in VS2k8? I am on a dev workstation with 3GB each of RAM and pagefile on a 32-bit PAE kernel, but the linker kicks out an LNK1201 error shortly after the PDB grows past 1GB. Is MSPDBSRV simply running out of address space?
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I've worked on some very large programs but never got close to a gigabyte. Sure, the error message tells you that you are exceeding an internal limitation. High time to split off code into DLLs. Ought to help a great deal with the monster link times as well.
– Hans Passant
I'm using VS2010 (64-bit) on Windows 7 and encountering the same error. After the linker quits with this error, the Windows Explorer "Properties" dialog for the .pdb file reports "Size on disk: 1.00 GB (1,073,741,824 bytes)". Is this seriously still a hard limit on the size of the PDB file? How can we get around this?
– aldo
See stackoverflow.com/questions/16308861/…
– Martin Richtarsky
