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Re: [BUG] -frepo causes collect to fail
- To: Lavoie Philippe <lavoie at yoho dot genie dot uottawa dot ca>
- Subject: Re: [BUG] -frepo causes collect to fail
- From: Alexandre Oliva <oliva at dcc dot unicamp dot br>
- Date: 17 May 1999 03:37:59 -0300
- Cc: egcs-bugs at egcs dot cygnus dot com
- References: <199905051744.NAA23733@yoho.genie.uottawa.ca>
On May 5, 1999, Lavoie Philippe <lavoie@yoho.genie.uottawa.ca> wrote:
> I'm including a small test program that shows that collect goes into
> infinite loop mode when compiling something that uses -frepo.
Are you really sure the loop is infinite? It may take *many*
iterations until all templates are properly instantiated. That's one
of the reasons why -frepo should only be used if you really really
need it, i.e., you're willing to trade a lot of compile time for save
disk space saving.
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