gcc hangs ! (version 4.1.2, Ubuntu 4.1.2-0ubuntu4)

[Andrew Haley]

Sunzir Deepur wrote:
> followup:
> 
> After a considerabale amount of time (e.g. 15 seconds), something is suddenly
> freed, and the compilation completes successfully. afterwards trying
> to recompile
> the file completes immediately (it is not a big file, so it takes
> fraction of a second).
> I don't know what is the cause of the hang.. I can tell that while it is hung,
> the cpu is not working (gcc doesn't even show in top..).

It's waiting on I/O.  This delay is either network related or a disk is
going to die.  It almost certainly isn't a gcc bug.

Andrew.