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From: wrp@biochsn.acc.virginia.edu (William R. Pearson)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: Xenix 2.2 Compiler error
Message-ID: <245@hudson.acc.virginia.edu>
Date: 12 Feb 88 18:51:26 GMT
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In article <515@rel.eds.com> bob@rel.eds.com (Bob Leffler) writes:
>When attempting to compile rn 4.3 the other day with the Xenix 286 2.2
>compiler, I got the following error:
>
>rcln.c(50) : Compiler error (internal):Infinite spill
>
This error has been around for a very long time.  I have always
found it associated with an expression of the form:

	str->mem[i++];

	You can get rid of it by rearranging:

	str->mem[i]; i++;

Bill Pearson
wrp@virginia.EDU