Penalty of the MSVS compiler flag /bigobj

Question

The basic Google search bigobj issue shows that a lot of people are experiencing the Fatal Error C1128: \"number of sections exceeded object file format limit : compile

Answer 1

The documentation does mention an important drawback to /bigobj:

Linkers that shipped prior to Visual C++ 2005 cannot read .obj files that were produced with /bigobj.

So, setting this option by default would restrict the number of linkers that can consume the resulting object files. Better to activate it on a need-to basis.