ID Number: Q60491
6.00 6.00a 6.00ax | 6.00 6.00a
MS-DOS | OS/2
buglist6.00 buglist6.00a buglist6.00ax fixlist7.00
Summary:
SYMPTOMS
Compiling large numbers of files in one compilation pass can cause an
"Out Of Memory" error. CL.EXE makes memory allocations for each file
it compiles and this memory is not freed until CL.EXE terminates.
This problem is most frequently encountered when passing wildcards to
the cl command, for example:
cl -c *.c
RESOLUTION
The best workaround is to use a makefile to govern the compilation of
large programs. Because NMAKE spawns CL.EXE separately for each
source module, the memory is returned to the operating system between
each source compilation.
STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in C versions 6.0,
6.0a, and 6.0ax. This problem was corrected in C/C++ version 7.0.