Olivier Langlois writes: > > > > We need more information. What OS? > > Windows XP > > How much RAM? > > 1 GB > > What compiler > > options? > > -Wall -g -fno-common -fno-exceptions > > > > > What does the CPU load look like when this happens? High or low? > > >From the task manager, cc1plus.exe is using 50% of the CPU and has a > memory usage of 36,924K. I'm guessing it's a bug, then. Memory usage looks reasonable. It doesn't sound like gcc is thrashing, but it's hard to be sure. If it is a bug in version 3.2, which is four years old, it's unlikely to be fixed now. Andrew.