GCC is freezing when compiling a big TU with the -g option

[Olivier Langlois]

Hi Andrew,
> 
> 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.

Greetings,
Olivier
> 
> Andrew.
>