Date: Tue, 25 Oct 1994 23:25:30 -0400 (EDT)
From: Kimberley Burchett <OKRA AT max DOT tiac DOT net>
Subject: gccrm really != gcc
To: DJGPP Mailing List <djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu>


  Ick.  I think gccrm is pretty broken. :(
  I tried to use -x to tell gccrm that a .cpp file is a c++ file.  I put 
this in a batch file:

  gccrm -x c++ %1.cpp -O2 -lm -lpc -lgpp -liostr

  I ran the batch file with "cc opt"  opt.cpp is a program that compiles 
with a couple warnings under gcc.
  With the batch file, I got a ton of errors about using // and then it 
started throwing binary at me!  I got happy faces, card suites, bells, 
etc. :(
  I decided to try to redirect this to a file so I could show you people 
what had happened.  So I ran it straight from the command line:

  gccrm -x c++ opt.cpp -O2 -lm -lpc -lgpp -liostr

  and it went along happily and spit out the couple of errors that gcc 
had spit out.  Then it did a major bout of swapping to disk and gave me 
the same two errors again.  Then again.  Then again... :/
  I figure this isn't a compiler bug since gccrm is probably dos-specific 
and therefore it's a problem that only happens with the djgpp release.  
Is it just a known fact that gccrm is buggy?  Or have I discovered 
something? :)
							Kim