[BUG] -frepo causes collect to fail

[Alexandre Oliva]

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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