From:	Shawn Hargreaves <Shawn AT talula DOT demon DOT co DOT uk>
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Subject:	Re: Allegro WIP (make.exe crash)
Date:	Tue, 23 Sep 1997 20:40:45 +0100
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Andrew Ellem writes:
>On behalf of someone's advice I tried compiling the WIP in
>a non-win95 DOS prompt.  What happened was even weierder.
>Make crashed when compiling the file listed below, so I decided
>to redir the error to a text file (redir -eo error.txt make), 
>but it ended up rebooting my computer!

It's very worrying that so many people seem to have trouble compiling
this file! It is very large (a macro that expands into 256 versions of a
color blending routine, one for each alpha value, and is used three
times for the different color depths), but it isn't _so_ big that I
would expect it to cause problems, and the individual functions are all
quite small. I have a nasty feeling that I might have to split this
across several files, unless you can find a reliable way to make it
build...

Do you know which phase of the compile is causing the crash? Add -v to
the gcc options, and see if it gets through the preprocessor to the
actual compiler: that will at least tell me whether it is the size of
the code or the size of the macro that is at fault...


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