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From: andrew@riddle.UUCP (Andrew Beattie)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: Help!  Huge model bombs out
Message-ID: <929@riddle.UUCP>
Date: 19 Oct 88 09:00:00 GMT
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Reply-To: andrew@riddle.UUCP (Andrew Beattie)
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In article <3700005@eecs.nwu.edu> skrenta@eecs.nwu.edu (Richard Skrenta) writes:
>
>........  I tried switching
>to the huge model, but halfway through the compile I got the following
>error:
>
>Compiler error (internal): infinite spill
>
This has been answered before, so I'll keep my answer short ...

the bigger the model, the more work the compiler has to do to cope with
re-direction, segements, offsets, arrays, pointers and stuff.

You reach the limit of how much the compiler can cope with, *very* quickly
in huge model.  Try spitting the offending line into two parts (using
temporary variables if necessary)

You can look up the message in your Programers guide II, under the tab
"cc and ld error messages" (if you look very hard :-) )