On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 12:40 AM, Stephan T. Lavavej <stl@exchange.microsoft.com> wrote:
[Olaf van der Spek]
Hmm, I'm on x64 but I'm compiling x86 code. What compiler does that use?
The x86-native compiler. VC10 also has an x86=>x64 cross-compiler, and an x64-native compiler (this is the one that reserves tons of address space for its PCH, because it can). Additionally, VC10 had x86=>IA-64 cross, and VC11 has x86=>ARM cross.
(If all of our compilers were x64-hosted, then PCH size problems would vanish in a puff of smoke.)
[STL]
This has been increased to 83 MB in VC11 as of right now.
[Olaf van der Spek]
Why 11?
As the compiler changes their data structures, they change the PCH size default accordingly.
So for the end-user the effect is 0? What's the disadvantage of reserving much more space for the PCH? -- Olaf