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From: kjh@pollux.usc.edu (Kenneth J. Hendrickson)
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Subject: bcc bug/feature
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Date: 22 Jun 91 09:52:15 GMT
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This is primarily aimed at Bruce Evans, but posted so that if anybody
else has a solution maybe they can help me.

While trying to compile a particularly large program (nethack 3.0i), bcc
chokes on one of the files in the preprocessing stage.  The error
message is 'compiler out of memory'.

I chmem'ed bcc, gld, and sc to larger values, but this didn't help.  I
didn't chmem as or ld, because I don't think that these were part of the
problem.

Since I don't have source, I can't make this compiler usable.  Perhaps
it's a feature, to encourage people to keep their programs small, but I
rather think it's a bug.  I do have a possible workaround - use gnu-cpp
to process the input before handing it to bcc.  However, this is very
messy, and it is not generally acceptable.

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