bigobj

Increases the number of sections that an object file can contain.

IDE Equivalent

None

Architectures

IA-32, Intel® 64 architectures

Syntax

Linux and Mac OS X:

None

Windows:

/bigobj

Arguments

None

Default

OFF	An object file can hold up to 65,536 (2**16) addressable sections.

Description

This option increases the number of sections that an object file can contain. It increases the address capacity to 4,294,967,296(2**32).

An .obj file produced with this option can only be effectively passed to a linker that shipped in Microsoft Visual C++* 2005 or later. Linkers shipped with earlier versions of the product cannot read .obj files of this size.

This option may be helpful for .obj files that can hold more sections, such as machine generated code or code that makes heavy use of template libraries.

Alternate Options

None