Date: Fri, 4 Jul 1997 09:57:43 +0200 (MET DST) From: Wolfgang Helbig <helbig@MX.BA-Stuttgart.De> To: dburr@POBoxes.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: weird gcc error? Message-ID: <199707040757.JAA08145@helbig.informatik.ba-stuttgart.de> In-Reply-To: <33bb4d09.2670126@mail.inreach.com> from Donald Burr at "Jul 3, 97 07:21:01 am"
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> Anyway, here is the problem: When compiling large programs, the > compile sometimes stops with an error. usually the error is something > like "parse error before '}'" but I remember one time when it was > something else (can't remember what the error was at that time, > though). The weird thing is, there IS no error (when I read the file, > it looks like perfectly good C syntax to me), and, if I run 'make' and > recompile that file WITHOUT CHANGING IT, it works fine! But the otions passed to cc might be different, e. g. if you use `make' the #include search path might be different - changed by -I flag. So you might have missing names and or typedefs which may lead to the above error messages. > Other than this, the machine is working perfectly. I often have it up > and doing stuff for hours, sometimes days at a time, and there haven't > been any other errors to speak of. > > So is this a gcc bug? Is anyone else having this type of trouble? Is > there a patch for it? > > Please let me know, pref. by email. Thanks! > -- > Donald Burr <dburr@POBoxes.com> - Ask me for my PGP key | PGP: Your > WWW HomePage: http://DonaldBurr.base.org/ ICQ #1347455 | right to > Address: P.O. Box 91212, Santa Barbara, CA 93190-1212 | 'Net privacy. > Phone: (805) 564-1871 FAX: (800) 492-5954 | USE IT. >
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