tl;dr: the error is returned by the linker rather than compiler itself. It is not a bug, just size limitation of the default memory model. Linux x86_64 provide

tl;dr: the error is returned by the linker rather than compiler itself. It is not a bug, just size limitation of the default memory model. Linux x86_64 provides `large model' -- as pointed out by VJo, but it is not supported by GCC before 4.6, http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6296837/gcc-compile-error-with-2gb-of-data/6297704#6297704 http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6296837/gcc-compile-error...