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RE: GCC is freezing when compiling a big TU with the -g option
Olivier Langlois writes:
> >
> > We need more information. What OS?
>
> Windows XP
>
> How much RAM?
>
> 1 GB
>
> What compiler
> > options?
>
> -Wall -g -fno-common -fno-exceptions
>
> >
> > What does the CPU load look like when this happens? High or low?
>
> >From the task manager, cc1plus.exe is using 50% of the CPU and has a
> memory usage of 36,924K.
I'm guessing it's a bug, then. Memory usage looks reasonable.
It doesn't sound like gcc is thrashing, but it's hard to be sure. If
it is a bug in version 3.2, which is four years old, it's unlikely to
be fixed now.
Andrew.