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Ed Friedman (ed@zaphod.uchicago.edu) wrote:

: I used to experience the same problem on our SPARC's, then discovered
: that when playing on a machine with only 8Mb of memory, the program would
: seem to hang almost forever (presumably due to swapping), whereas, when
: put on a machine with 16+Mb of memory, the program ran just as swiftly
: as the earlier patch levels did.

Thanks for your suggestion, but I am quite positive that the problem
is not one of swapping because:

a) My machine (NeXTStation) has 16 MB RAM.
b) My HD is very noisy, so I can easily tell when swapping is going on.
c) The problem does not happen when optimization flags are not turned on.
d) By compiling with "-g -O", I am able to verify with the debugger that
   the program is getting stuck inside an infinite do loop, as explained
   in my previous post.

BTW, someone else wrote to me to say that he built his gcc himself and
has the same problem as me, so it's doubtful that the problem is a bug
in the NeXT-provided gcc that I am using.

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Pascal "The Rascal" Gaudette
rascal@cam.org