From: Martin DOT Stromberg AT lu DOT erisoft DOT se (Martin Stromberg)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Recently installed version of DJGPP's gcc hangs
Date: 28 Sep 1998 08:49:06 GMT
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jtgalkowski AT alum DOT mit DOT edu wrote:
: The file has been diagnosed by Mr Eli Zaretskii as "a huge
: 'switch' statement with a lot of cases."  Moreover, he
: goes on to say "Such sources are known to require
: preposterous amounts of memory while GCC compiles them,
: and also a lot of stack space."

Two suggestions: turn down optimisation level or change the code to two
or more switch statements ("if(i<100) { switch(i) ... } else { switch(i) 
... }").


Right,

							MartinS