Xref: news2.mv.net comp.os.msdos.djgpp:7540 From: Elliott Oti Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: GCC crashes often Date: Tue, 13 Aug 1996 04:38:16 -0700 Organization: Academic Computer Centre Utrecht, (ACCU) Lines: 23 Message-ID: <32106928.3929@stud.warande.ruu.nl> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: warande1078.warande.ruu.nl Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > On Sat, 10 Aug 1996, Raja Vallee-Rai wrote: > > > I've been experiencing some rather unusual difficulties with gcc. > > Every now and then, the compiler just freezes while doing its stuff. > > Do you use CWSDPMI? If so, be sure to upgrade to the latest release 2 of > CWSDPMI (v2misc/csdpmi2b.zip from the same place you get DJGPP). It > might solve your problems. If not, please post the details of your > system setup as the FAQ describes in section 6.12. It's also possible that your system is inefficiently configured. When I first tried out DJGPP V2 on a 486 with 12MB, no disk-cache, no RAM-disk and a slow HDD, compiling non-trivial files took so long that I honestly thought GCC had crashed, and Ctrl-C'd the process many times. Compiling thrashed my HDD, so I knew THAT stage worked, but linking virtually doesn't touch the disk, so I assumed the program had crashed. Installing a 2MB disk cache worked wonders for the compile-times. BTW : Is there a V2 option similar to the "GO32 topline" of V1? Or has anyone a patch of V2 to enable status reports during compilation ?