Olivier Langlois http://www.olivierlanglois.net > > Are you sure it doesn't eventually terminate? It might be that it's > writing an enormous amount of debuginfo to a temporary asm fie. Hi Andrew, Yes I'm pretty much sure that the compiler is really dead. There is no more HD activity when the compiler gets stuck and I have let the compiler running during a whole night! It is as if I was reaching a hardcoded limit on the maximum number of functions that the compiler can process for a single TU with '-g'. It is especially true with template instantiation. A lot of included classes declarations are declaring private STL containers. I have been able to get the compilation further by encapsulating/hiding the STL containers declaration away from the header files. Greetings, Olivier