Olivier Langlois writes: > > > 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. > > 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. OK, so my guess is right. The only way ahead is to try to debug the compiler. Andrew.