To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: AVOID -fforce-addr
Message-ID: <19970303.220414.8255.3.chambersb@juno.com>
References: <5fe5ar$rvn AT freenet-news DOT carleton DOT ca>
From: chambersb AT juno DOT com (Benjamin D Chambers)
Date: Tue, 04 Mar 1997 01:01:09 EST


On 3 Mar 1997 09:23:39 GMT ao950 AT FreeNet DOT Carleton DOT CA (Paul Derbyshire)
writes:
>
>
>I attempted to compile a program with -fforce-addr. GCC did a bit of
>compiling and then hung. During the hang it periodically accessed the 
>hard
>drive so it must have gotten stuck in a rather wide infinite loop. I
>discovered that it had hung and wasn't just slow compiling when I 
>noticed
>that it had been doing the exact same thing for about 30 minutes 
>running.
>When I took -fforce-addr off the command line it compiled fine.
I'd like to investigate this (-fforce-addr is a useful optimization, and
I'd like to be able to use it).
Could you post the shortest program (you can find) that does this?

...Chambers