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From: jerry@altos86.Altos.COM (Jerry Gardner)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer
Subject: RAM Disk Problem with TC++
Message-ID: <4662@altos86.Altos.COM>
Date: 31 Jan 91 17:29:54 GMT
Reply-To: jerry@altos86.Altos.COM (Jerry Gardner)
Organization: Altos Computer Systems, San Jose, CA.
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I'm having a strange problem with Turbo C++ Professional that I can't
explain.  Perhaps someone else has seen this problem and knows the
cause and a solution.

I have a large application (~25,000 lines of ANSI C (no C++ constructs))
that will compile fine from the hard disk.  When I create a 2MB RAM disk
in extended memory (33 MHz 386 with 4MB RAM) using VDISK and attempt to
compile the same source on the RAM disk, the compiler will hang about
halfway through the compilation.  There is plenty of room on the RAM
disk for the object files, and the compiler is swapping to the hard
disk.  It always hangs at exactly the same place in the source and the
machine can be rebooted using <Ctrl><Alt>-Del.  I'm using the TCC++
integrated environment (1.0), MS-Dos 3.3, and no TSR's.


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