From: Tudor <tudor AT cam DOT org>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: AVOID -fforce-addr
Date: Sat, 08 Mar 1997 09:03:27 -0800
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Paul Derbyshire wrote:
> 
> 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'm sorry to dissapoint you once again but I just compiled a program
with -fforce-addr (out of curiosity) and it worked fine.It crashed, but
that is the normal behaviour for the program :)
What system do you have?Is there any configuration problem? What version
of DJGPP do you have?
 
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