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From: wald AT theory DOT lcs DOT mit DOT edu (David Wald)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Problems with cc1.exe (djgpp v 2.0)
Date: 19 Feb 1996 22:26:06 GMT
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In article <4g9hdb$ene AT news DOT uni-c DOT dk> jesper AT chaos DOT fys DOT dtu DOT dk (Jesper
Skovhus Thomsen) writes:
>Charles Sandmann (sandmann AT clio DOT rice DOT edu) wrote:
>> So, either GCC 2.6.3 used a lot less stack than 2.7.2 does, or the beta 
>> testers don't compile huge C++ files, or maybe a bit of both.
>
>I cant say about C++ because I "only" uses C. However on might argue that
>it is bad programming style to have a single huge C file insted of a
>series of smaller C files that are linked together (I was able to compile
>both libjpeg and libtiff without any [compiler] problems).

I'll buy that, but the problem with DJGPP 2.0 C++ (at least my problem
with it) isn't really "huge C++ files".  It's that with template types
the type information required by headers can turn a short, reasonable
source file into a *lot* of work (and apparently, a nasty amount of
memory allocation) for the compiler.  The files I was (possibly still
am -- I'm getting mixed results) having trouble with were quite
reasonable-sized pieces of a much larger project.

-David
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