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I have not found any identifyable bugs yet. I had the compiler go into an endless loop on me last night while compiling uEmacs 3.10, but when I restarted the make, the same file compiled with no problems. I had been changing header files to make the compiler happy and the changes did not affect thefile which choked the compiler. In fact with all the changes in the header for other files, this file must have been recompiled five or six times and only hung the compiler once… strange. Error # 167 (expression too complex – simplify and recompile) is not documented anywhere I can find and was emitted by the compiler when it tried to evaluate the following expresstion: char name[SIZE]; struct foo { char n_name[SIZE]; … etc… }; int *iP; struct foo *fP; name[*iP] = fP->n_name[*iP]; this blows up While I have in the past seen similar errors (CP/M comiler ~8 years ago?, expression with several more pointer dereferences), I've never seen it on such a simple expression. The 3.6 compiler had no problems with exressions much more complex than this. While declaring an extra temp variable to hold the index works, I shouldn't have to do this! <UP ON SOAPBOX> This is yet another gripe to another software developer about …Obnoxious compiler version and copyright notices… Why is it that everyone insists on throwing this information all over the screen EVERY TIME THE PROGRAM RUNS??? I know what version of what compiler I'm running. I know who has the copyrights. Why do I have to sift through all this garbage to see what happened when I ran the program? A simple command line switch would suffice if I forgot! <DOWN OFF SOAPBOX>