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To: Josh Rubin <jlrubin AT bway DOT net>, Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
Date: Thu, 4 Jun 1998 20:44:51 +0300
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Subject: Re: Possible cause for "gcc just hangs"
CC: djgpp AT delorie DOT com, Andris Pavenis <pavenis AT lanet DOT lv>
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Date sent:      	Thu, 4 Jun 1998 20:09:00 +0300 (IDT)
From:           	Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To:             	Josh Rubin <jlrubin AT bway DOT net>
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Subject:        	Re: Possible cause for "gcc just hangs"

> 
> On Wed, 3 Jun 1998, Josh Rubin wrote:
> 
> > The swap file C:\CWSDPMI.SWP contains many repetitions of
> > the string "$DJDIR/lib/gcc-lib/". Something is getting into
> > a loop and filling up memory.
> 
> Seems like an infinite recirsion or an infinite loop.
> 
> Andris, can you reproduce this by undefining %DJGPP%?
> 

Yes looks that this is the root of evil. This also explains why this problem
is encountered mostly by newbies as experiencied users usually have 
%DJGPP% defined. 

If I undefine %DJGPP% gcc goes into infinite loop.

So please DEFINE it. I'll try to look what I can do to avoid dark screen
up to pressing Ctrl-Break. I think simplest would be outputing 
fatal error message that %DJGPP% is not defined. 

Andris