[Nel] VC's internal compilation error C1001

[Beren Sanders]

Hello everyone,
A while ago someone sent a message about a problem they had compiling the 
NeL misc library using VC.  They got a number of "Internal Compiler Errors".

Well, I came up against the same problem recently, and so I'm posting this 
message so that anyone else that comes up against it can fix it without 
hassle.

VC's Internal Compiler Error C1001 is a known bug (acknowledged by 
Microsoft), involving the compiler exceeding its memory limit.  It only 
happens on some configurations (old windows98 and VC6.0 seems to have it), 
and usually seems to happen when dealing with templates and precompiled 
headers (i think...).
The easy fix simply involves increasing the compiler's heap memory 
allocation limit.  Go to Project menu->Settings->C/C++ and in the project 
options add a /Zm# switch where # is some number.  I think it defaults to 
100 but a number of 500 should work (/Zm500).

Thanks,
Beren Sanders

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