Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!rochester!rocksanne!mayer From: mayer@rocksanne.UUCP (Jim Mayer) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: Bizzare, non repeatable, 4.3 C compiler behavior Message-ID: <328@rocksanne.UUCP> Date: Thu, 16-Jul-87 13:19:46 EDT Article-I.D.: rocksann.328 Posted: Thu Jul 16 13:19:46 1987 Date-Received: Sat, 18-Jul-87 08:08:04 EDT Organization: Xerox: Webster Research Center, Rochester, NY Lines: 27 I have been having the following, rather bizzare, problem with the 4.3bsd C compiler. I get non repeatable compiler errors! By non repeatable I mean that if I reissue the same command, I will get a different error or a successful compile. The errors are usually of the form: compiler error in lib/ccom or compiler error: couldn't find basic type 14 (or 4, or 10) for FOO The behavior is rather bursty; sometimes it goes away, and sometimes it makes it almost impossible to get any work done. When the compiler completes successfully it always seems to produce a good object file. What really puzzles me is the non repeatable behavior of the problem. I took a brief look through the sources, and didn't find any obvious causes of non repeatable behavior (calls to "time", "gettimeofday"; writes to temp files that do not include the current pid, etc.). It could be a file system or hardware problem, but fsck seems to run fine. Also, I recall having similar problems on other UNIX machines (4.2 I believe) but never this frequently. Has anybody else had this problem? Do poltergeists really exist? -- Jim -- (Grapevine) mayer.wbst (Arpa) mayer.wbst@Xerox.com (NS) mayer:wbst128:xerox (Phone) (716) 422-9407 (UUCP) {seismo|allegra}!rochester!rocksanne!mayer