Date: Fri, 8 May 92 17:09:50 GMT
From: kuku AT acds DOT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de (Christoph Kukulies)
To: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu, sl25 AT cus DOT cam DOT ac DOT uk
Subject: Re: -O switch
Status: O

>>In any case the machin efroze requiring a hard boot
> I to have seen this, most often from the compiler.

This morning I had a similar strange problem. I've moved to 1.06 a while ago
and everything went fine. I had a package of about 20 C programs and as
software development began to stabilize I began to remove the -g option, 
added -O in the makefile and thought 'now let's see how small we can
really get the .exe'.

It became necessary to recompile another module which hadn't been
touched for a while and suddenly during compile of that module
the machine got hung. I thought of disk errors, cache etc. Looked into
this and looked into that. Only when I added a -g -DDJGPP in the
CFLAGS line everything worked as before. I didn't yet trace the problem
down to the passage where my code was dependent on DJGPP to be defined
but strange it was, anyway. There must be sleeping some hidden problem.

--Chris