Date: Mon, 1992 Jun 22   10:35 EDT
From: Bob Babcock <PEPRBV%CFAAMP DOT BITNET AT clvm DOT clarkson DOT edu>
To: djgpp <djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu>
Subject: Replying ...

>...I was stopping them and the program
>by warm-booting using control-alt-delete. Control-C wasn't
>working.  After doing this twice, I think, the program
>terminated the third time during the disk accesses to give
>an "out of swap space" error ( I don't remember the message
>precisely). At this point I noticed that the last 16 or so
>megabytes of free space on my hard drive had been reduced to
>less than 100 Kbytes.

You can hardly blame gcc for not cleaning up its swap space if you
reboot while it is running.  You'll get the same lost cluster problem
from many DOS programs if you boot while they have files open.
I always run chkdsk after a program crashes or has to be interrupted.