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From:	Elliott Oti <e DOT oti AT stud DOT warande DOT ruu DOT nl>
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: GCC crashes often
Date:	Tue, 13 Aug 1996 04:38:16 -0700
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Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> 
> On Sat, 10 Aug 1996, Raja Vallee-Rai wrote:
> 
> > I've been experiencing some rather unusual difficulties with gcc.
> > Every now and then, the compiler just freezes while doing its stuff.
> 
> Do you use CWSDPMI?  If so, be sure to upgrade to the latest release 2 of
> CWSDPMI (v2misc/csdpmi2b.zip from the same place you get DJGPP).  It
> might solve your problems.  If not, please post the details of your
> system setup as the FAQ describes in section 6.12.

It's also possible that your system is inefficiently configured. When I
first tried out DJGPP V2 on a 486 with 12MB, no disk-cache, no RAM-disk and
a slow HDD, compiling non-trivial files took so long that I honestly
thought GCC had crashed, and Ctrl-C'd the process many times. Compiling
thrashed my HDD, so I knew THAT stage worked, but linking virtually doesn't
touch the disk, so I assumed the program had crashed.
Installing a 2MB disk cache worked wonders for the compile-times.
BTW : Is there a V2 option similar to the "GO32 topline" of V1? Or has
anyone a patch of V2 to enable status reports during compilation ?

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