Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1998 12:53:18 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: jtgalkowski AT alum DOT mit DOT edu
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Recently installed version of DJGPP's gcc hangs
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On Mon, 28 Sep 1998 jtgalkowski AT alum DOT mit DOT edu wrote:

> What's disturbing here is that there should be one
> particular kind of program that brings GCC to its
> knees in any situation.

You gotta be kidding.  Any compiler will abort when it exceeds all 
available virtual memory on the machine it runs.  So, for every compiler 
and platform, there's a guaranteed case of at least one program that 
causes it to fail.

The question is how close to real cases such programs are.

> Anyone who wants a copy of the offending C source
> is welcome to write me at jtgalkowski AT alum DOT mit DOT edu.

Please send me the source (with all the relevant header files, so that I 
could try to compile it), and I will try to see what does it take to 
compile it.  The source you posted earlier lacked the headers, so I could 
only look at it.