Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
From:	Elliott Oti <e DOT oti AT stud DOT warande DOT ruu DOT nl>
Subject:	Re: CD ROM drives and GCC
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Date:	Fri, 1 Aug 1997 02:38:29 GMT
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Josh Anderson wrote:
> 
> I have noticed that, on my computer, whenever I compile a source file,
> the CD ROM drive on my system spins up.  Not that I have a problems with
> it, I was just wondering if anyone has any insights as to why this might
> be happening.

I noticed the same thing on my system. My CDROM drive was the D drive
and it was really irritating that the music CD playing in it got zapped
everytime I started gcc up. The linker causes it (compiling to assembler
or object code output has no effect). I searched the djgpp config files
but found nothing. I guess the linker is looking for temp disk space.

( BTW I have a 16K XMS ramdisk sitting between me and my CDROM, so that
I can program and play music CD's simultaeneously. gcc links faster too,
now. )

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