Thread: Program design in C

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    Question Program design in C

    I tried to compile my program and was un able to do so because this error posted at the end, as pasted below: Sentence in parentheses is the problem.
    <math.h> is the library I was working in for my homework and somewhere I really messed up. This sentence shows up on all of my files associated with my homework if I were to try to compile them.

    triton% gcc testray.c -lm
    cc1: (No space left on device: error closing /var/tmp//ccqni3N3.s)

    Any help would be appreciated.

    Sincerely,

    Bob

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    What does your thread title have to do with the question?

    How much free disk space do you have left? GCC is complaining that it cannot save a temporary file due to lack of space.
    All the buzzt!
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    Try df -h to see how much disk space is free on whatever partition /var/tmp is located on. You may have lots of free disk space, but have /var/tmp completely stuffed if it's on a different partition. If it is full, delete something from it, resize the partition (difficult), or use a different temp directory; I'm sure GCC lets you choose the temporary directory for it to use.
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    Quote Originally Posted by CornedBee
    GCC is complaining that it cannot save a temporary file due to lack of space.
    Or lack of permissions.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Kennedy
    Or lack of permissions.
    Only if the system is so broken that it returns ENOSPC/EFBIG instead of EROFS/EACCES from open() and friends.
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