From: Michael Feldman <mfeldman AT seas DOT gwu DOT edu>
Subject: Re: Trying to comile VOGLE
To: rafael AT alpha DOT coe DOT ufrj DOT br (Rafael Gustavo da Cunha Pereira Pinto)
Date: Wed, 26 Oct 1994 15:27:41 -0400 (EDT)
Cc: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu

> > ...on an 8-mb 386 with no coprocessor. The first compilation seems to
> > have been stuck in a loop for nearly thirty minutes; the file is about
> > 700 lines long, with lots of comments and whitespace.
> > 
> 
> 
>    I had a problem like that a few months ago. It was the number of
> file handlers that made the compiler stop. Try increasing the number
> of available file handlers (FILES=60, e.g.) in your config.sys...
> 
This was not the problem. DJ wrote to me suggesting that I run stubedit
on gcc and g032, setting keepmem=0. That did the trick.

I know I applied the maintenance fixes, which were supposed to solve this
problem, but in any case I found the solution.

The djgpp list is great - thank you all for writing privately on this.

Mike Feldman
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