extremely large expressions fail to compile

[David Whysong]

On 6 Oct 1998, Alexandre Oliva wrote:

>David Whysong <dwhysong@physics.ucsb.edu> writes:
>
>> Ok, here's the result, using an older version of egcs (it's all I have
>> access to at the moment -- I can try something else later if you like). 
>
>Please do.  gcc 2.7.2.3 is not egcs, nor is it representative any
>more.  As I told you, I couldn't reproduce the problem with egcs 1.1,
>so unless you show this problem really exists in your installation of
>egcs 1.1 (and not any other previous version), it will be considered
>fixed.

Hmm, I thought that I had used egcs, that's what "gcc -v" said... oh well. 
Regardless I finally compiled egcs-1.1b and it works.

Dave

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