From:	"Charles Sandmann" <sandmann AT clio DOT rice DOT edu>
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: upgrade chaos
Date:	Wed, 12 Jan 2000 13:45:07
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> > Straight after this, i tried to build it again and everything went
> > smoothly.  I've been unable to reconstruct the bug.
> 
> This usually means a hardware problem.  GCC is a memory hog: it uses lots 
> of RAM, and it shuffles large buffers to and fro.  It is not uncommon for 
> it to be the first application that crashes when something is wrong with 
> memory or CPU cache setup.

Usually this means using an unitialized variable - not a hardware problem.

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