bdr@neti1.uucp (Brian Renaud) (02/18/88)
[many people's comments and questions about "spill space"]
"Out of spill space" is often a way a compiler says "this expression
too complex for me to handle". The spill space is where the
expression handler puts intermediate terms. My experience is that
adding register support to a C compiler really screws everything up.
This is especially true of expression handling. Your work-around
when you see this sort of message is to simplify the offending
expression. Removing "register" may be a quick and easy way of
simplifying the expression.
For what it's worth, I saw a lot of problems like this with HUGE
model under Xenix. I'm not positive, but I think it was version 2.1.
However, the same expressions worked fine with LARGE model. I also used
the large model compiler (that's right, the large model compiler, not
the compiler producing large model, the -LARGE flag, I think).
Very Important Disclaimer: I am not a compiler guru!! (More like a
compiler fool.) The statements I have presented as fact could very
easily be completely false. Moreover, I have not done Xenix development
in about six months, so my facts there are probably a little fuzzy.
Brian
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