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From: Damian Yerrick <MYNAMEISd_yerrick AT hotmail DOT comNO2CANNEDHAM>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: upgrade chaos
Organization: Pin Eight Software <http://pineight.8m.com/>
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Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2000 16:25:36 GMT
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Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> wrote in message
<Pine DOT SUN DOT 3 DOT 91 DOT 1000112154156 DOT 258A-100000 AT is>...
>
>This usually means a hardware problem.  GCC is a memory hog:

GNU programs tend to eat memory.  But this is OK; the
environments (DOS+CWSDPMI+DJGPPCRT, Linux+glibc) they run in
are good at virtual memory management.  It means that a RAM
upgrade will upgrade the speed of all of GNU.

>It is not uncommon for it to be the first application that
>crashes when something is wrong with memory or CPU cache setup.

Who needs expensive diagnostic software to find memory problems?
Just run GCC on a rather large source file. :-)

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