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From: chad@lakesys.UUCP (D. Chadwick Gibbons)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.games.bugs
Subject: Re: Conquer 4.2 INFINITE SPILL MICROSOFT CC ERROR
Keywords: internal error, navy.c
Message-ID: <931@lakesys.UUCP>
Date: 5 Aug 89 14:35:21 GMT
References: <221@tnl.UUCP>
Reply-To: chad@lakesys.UUCP (D. Chadwick Gibbons)
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Organization: Lake Systems - Milwaukee, Wisconsin
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In article <221@tnl.UUCP> norstar@tnl.UUCP (Daniel Ray) writes:
|the Microsoft C compiler yields the error:
|	Compiler error (Internal): Infinite spill

	This happens in quite a few programs when trying to compile them on
any MicroSoft compiler.	  The problem is due to the way the compiler handlers
register declerations.  Too many register decelerations are supposed to be
ignored, but they wind up confusing the cheap compiler.  There is only one
fix, but it can be done in two ways:

	a) remove all register decelerations for a given function, or 
	b) remove one at a time, starting with the one which caused the
	   error

My experience has shown that generally this requires option "a" for some
strange reason.  Usually a function will get this if everything in it is made
register, and it has more than seven register declerations...programs to look
for this include practiaclly any game written: moria, nethack 3.0, omega, etc.
-- 
D. Chadwick Gibbons, chad@lakesys.lakesys.com, ...!uunet!marque!lakesys!chad