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Re: [BUG] -frepo causes collect to fail
- To: Alexandre Oliva <oliva at dcc dot unicamp dot br>
- Subject: Re: [BUG] -frepo causes collect to fail
- From: Lavoie Philippe <lavoie at yoho dot genie dot uottawa dot ca>
- Date: Mon, 17 May 1999 11:21:20 -0400
- Cc: Lavoie Philippe <lavoie at yoho dot genie dot uottawa dot ca>, egcs-bugs at egcs dot cygnus dot com
- References: <199905051744.NAA23733@yoho.genie.uottawa.ca><orpv4042wo.fsf@lua.lbi.dcc.unicamp.br>
Alexandre Oliva writes:
> 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.
>
Well, the test program has only one member function and after 200+
iterations I decided it was infinite.
Don't you have the same behavior ?
Phil