Reply-To:	"Gil-Dong HOng" <santuary DOT master AT mailcity DOT com>
From:	"John Smith" <johnsmith AT microsoft DOT com>
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
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Subject:	Re: Possible cause for "gcc just hangs"
Date:	Fri, 5 Jun 1998 01:11:44 -0500
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To:	djgpp AT delorie DOT com
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hmmmm.... i tried to define %DJGPP%, and it didn't work; gcc hangs under
win95.... some can any one post a autoexec.bat and *.evn file so that i can
just use it....djgpp was installed c:\dgjpp
i thank you in advance....


pavenis AT lanet DOT lv wrote in message ...
Date sent:      Thu, 4 Jun 1998 20:09:00 +0300 (IDT)
From:           Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To:             Josh Rubin <jlrubin AT bway DOT net>
Copies to:      djgpp AT delorie DOT com, Andris Pavenis <pavenis AT lanet DOT lv>
Subject:        Re: Possible cause for "gcc just hangs"

>
> On Wed, 3 Jun 1998, Josh Rubin wrote:
>
> > The swap file C:\CWSDPMI.SWP contains many repetitions of
> > the string "$DJDIR/lib/gcc-lib/". Something is getting into
> > a loop and filling up memory.
>
> Seems like an infinite recirsion or an infinite loop.
>
> Andris, can you reproduce this by undefining %DJGPP%?
>

Yes looks that this is the root of evil. This also explains why this problem
is encountered mostly by newbies as experiencied users usually have
%DJGPP% defined.

If I undefine %DJGPP% gcc goes into infinite loop.

So please DEFINE it. I'll try to look what I can do to avoid dark screen
up to pressing Ctrl-Break. I think simplest would be outputing
fatal error message that %DJGPP% is not defined.

Andris

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