On 07/03/2026 09:37, Dick Pierce via Cygwin wrote:
Starting the end of last week, gcc has started behaving badly. Whether I invoke it from a makefile or directly from bash, almost ALL of the timer, it hangs forever, and Task Manager shows cc1 as "running", but consuming no CPU as far as I can tell. If I kill it through task manager, the prompt returns in bash (or make dies with an "interrupted" error.
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But I'm stumped.
Smells like a hardware problem to me - I'd suggest testing it thoroughly with memtest86 or similar.
Also run it through `strace -f gcc -o hello.exe hello.c` a few times and see if it's sticking in the same spot every time (which would indicate software)?
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