Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!rutgers!umd5!grebyn!vrdxhq!drew
From: drew@vrdxhq.UUCP (Drew Johnson)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: Xenix 2.2 Compiler error
Summary: probably linked to expression computation
Message-ID: <5650@vrdxhq.UUCP>
Date: 16 Feb 88 16:18:14 GMT
References: <515@rel.eds.com> <4218@june.cs.washington.edu> <727@ddsw1.UUCP>
Organization: Verdix Corporation, Chantilly, VA
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In article <4218@june.cs.washington.edu> kevinr@uw-june.UUCP (Kevin Ross) writes:
>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

I got this 'Infinite spill' message left and right when trying to compile
the game 'Omega' on my Xenix286 box.  I believe the problem is linked to
the compiler's limitation on single line expressions.  Trying something
like:
	x[y[z.a.b->c][d.e->f]]

is beyond the poor Xenix C compiler's ability to calculate.  Every time
that I got this error, it was corrected by spreading calculations such
as the one above over two or more instructions.  I am betting that this
will not be fixed in the near future, but SCO may come up with a more
informative error statement.

Drew D. Johnson
vrdxhq!drew