Re: gcc complier cranky? help!

[Nelson Minar]

>when compiling a program, i will run into an error which halts the
>compilation. but if i simply try again, after a random number of
>tries, it works. and all this without me having to change the program
>at all.

Yeah, but you should never underestimate the effect of tides on
computers. The moon shifted, so the behaviour of the computer is
different :-)

>this is very frustrating, and makes debugging a totally wild experience.

It sounds a lot like you have flaky hardware, maybe bad memory or
memory that's too slow. The suggestion to test out your machine by
compiling the Linux kernel was a good one.

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