Microsoft Visual C++ 8.0 compiler error which occurs when the C++ class API and /or the number of C++ classes in a DLL becomes too large - visual-c++-2008

Question

I was wondering if anyone knew what the number of the Microsoft Visual C++ 8.0 compiler error which occurs when a C++ class API and /or the number of C++ classes in a DLL becomes too large.
Thank you for your help.

Answer 1

My answer to this question is:
That would probably most likely be Microsoft Visual C++ compiler C1002
(http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-US/library/c9e6fs6b%28v=vs.80%29.aspx):
"compiler is out of heap space in pass 2"
Fatal Error C1002
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Error Message
compiler is out of heap space in pass 2
The compiler ran out of dynamic memory space during its second pass, probably due to a program with too many symbols or complex expressions.
To fix by using the following possible solutions
1.Divide the source file into several smaller files.
2.Break expressions into smaller subexpressions.
3.Remove other programs or drivers that consume memory
Please let me know your opinionof this proposed answer.
the solution to this problem i was told this morning is to close the Visual Studio C++ 2008 environment and then restart ii up again.

Answer 2

Shown below is the latest answer I received to the Stack Overflow question:
Microsoft Visual C++ 8.0 compiler error which occurs when the C++ class API and /or the number of C++ classes in a DLL becomes too large
"the compiler's input objects are source files, not dll's. the dll is output of the linker. i never have seen a source file that was too big for compilation. the biggest file i can remember had about 50,000 lines. it probably included header files of same or greater total size.
if your system is low on heap memory it is more likely that the linker would report problems or error because of this. in my opinion it is only a rare chance to happen on a modern system. you also could/should upgrade to newer version of visual studio, for example visual studio 2012 (vc11) is 7 years younger than your compiler. if you were developing on windows xp you should go to vs2008 (vc9) which is more stable than vc8"