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From: karl@ddsw1.MCS.COM (Karl Denninger)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: compiler error..
Summary: And a fix for the same error
Message-ID: <1990Feb22.194304.24887@ddsw1.MCS.COM>
Date: 22 Feb 90 19:43:04 GMT
References: <854@stsim.ocs.com> <945@chinacat.Lonestar.ORG>
Reply-To: karl@mcs.MCS.COM (Karl Denninger)
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In article <945@chinacat.Lonestar.ORG> chip@chinacat.Lonestar.ORG (Chip Rosenthal) writes:
>In article <854@stsim.ocs.com> glenn@stsim (glenn ford) writes:
>>I recieved the following error trying to get conquer4 running under SCO Xenix
>>386, 2.3.1:
>>	Compiler error (internal): Infinite spill
>>What causes this, and is it fixed?
>
>My understanding is that it is due to a problem in the register usage
>scheme in the Microsoft compiler, and is activated by complex expressions.
>About all you can do is locate the expression causing the problem and
>simplify it.  Here is a portion of code in rn's "rcln.c" file which has
>this problem, and my fix:

Before you go modifying the code, try adding:

	-Dregister=

to your CFLAGS.  This will remove register declarations (it may break things
as well, if the user of the register didn't include a type; a common
problem, but one easy to fix).

This will usually get the offending code to compile.

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