Help: compiler error

I'm using VS 2005 now, but I do remember some weird internal compiler errors in VS 2003 resulting from:

1) Invalid TEMP folder, or TEMP folder full.
2) Insufficient virtual memory.
3) Different precompiler settings. Do a full rebuild.

(3) is I think your problem, see here:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/141443

Hi,

You're misplacing the blame.

The only one it is a bad sign for is Microsoft. It's their compiler crashing!

There is some combination of your code, Codejock's code, and/or your system configuration that finds a bug in Microsoft's compiler.

I don't have an alternative for VS either. I'm just saying that the internal compiler error is a bug in Visual Studio, not in Codejock!

Have you submitted an incident report to Microsoft? THEY are the ones that might be able to figure out what is wrong, since they have the source code and can at least tell what the compiler is doing when it fails. Codejock doesn't have that, so anything they did would just be guessing.

If lots of customers were having the problem, Codejock would have to try do something about it (and might have enough to go on by comparing projects, compiler settings, and system configurations). But when it's one customer, it's too difficult to even guess what the issue might be.

Here are some suggestions from having to deal with similar weird things in the past (I've used MS compilers since 1993):

1) Be sure you have plenty of virtual memory and free disk space. Don't let Windows manage your virtual memory settings; simply allocate fixed area(s) with a total of 8-16 GB for your page/swap file.

2) If the problem is consistently happening when compiling certain modules, you may be hitting an undocumented/unknown compiler limit (which should generate a "too many symbols" or "expression too complex" message rather than a crash.)

3) Learn everything YOU can about the problem. Try changing compiler options, try command line compiles, limit the number of concurrent compile threads, turn off incremental compiling/linking, try compiling on a different computer, etc.