FIXINCL goes into an infinite loop on alpha-osf4

[Zack Weinberg]

On Sun, Jan 23, 2000 at 10:32:57AM -0500, Kaveh R. Ghazi wrote:
>  > From: Zack Weinberg <zack@wolery.cumb.org>
>  > 
>  > On Sat, Jan 22, 2000 at 02:30:36PM -0500, Kaveh R. Ghazi wrote:
>  > >
>  > > Last night's gcc CVS cannot complete running fixincl, it goes into an
>  > > infinite loop eating 99.9% of the CPU.  I can't seem to figure out
>  > > what file it is processing because it simply ends with:
>  > >
>  > >  > Applying Io_Def_Quotes            to sys/fpsreg.h
>  > 
>  > Can you run it again, and when it goes into the infinite loop, attach
>  > to it in the debugger and get me a stack trace?
> 
> 
> Here you go:
> 
> (gdb) where
> #0  0x120008318 in fix_char_macro_defines (
>     text=0x14001d080 "/*\n * ", '*' <repeats 65 times>, "\n * *", ' '
>     <repeats 63 times>, "*\n * *    Copyright (c) Digital Equipment
>     Corporation, 1991, "...,
>     str=0x140009808 "IO")

Ok.  I don't see anything obvious in fix_char_macro_defines.  Can you
please send me a copy of fpsreg.h?

zw