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From: ssd@rtmvax.UUCP (Steve Dick)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: compiling AT&T c++ under UTX 2.1
Keywords: yacc, C++, stack overflow
Message-ID: <3097@rtmvax.UUCP>
Date: 11 Apr 90 02:09:11 GMT
Reply-To: ssd@rtmvax.UUCP (Steve Dick)
Distribution: comp
Organization: RTmVax Public Unix System, Orlando FL
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I have been trying to compile AT&T C++ 2.0 on a Powernode system.
The make scratch succeeds easily (with a large number of changes to
various sh scripts).

Then I do a make, and everything proceeds fine, until the scratch version
of cfront tries to compile the yacc file y.tab.c.  At this point it core
dumps with the error "STACK OVERFLOW".  Of course, I tried making my
stack a 18 meg stack (apprently the max) instead of a 12 meg stack, but
then it just gives a bigger core.

A stack trace shows that it's failing with ~1000 function calls to a
recursive routine called DEL (actually a macro/function family).

Has anyone else tried any of this?  (BTW: the y.tab.o from scratch works,
but it annoys me that I can't compile it with CC.)

My next adventure will be an attempt to compile the tasking library
while pretending I am a vax.  (Multiple sources say this will work.)

		Steve