On Oct 4, 2008, at 12:34 PM, Rich Love wrote:

> ..... The Main file has 30,000 lines of code.


Robert P. responded on this issue a while back Rich. The large main is  
a problem for gcc. We can't change gcc ( at least not easily ).

Just FYI as a way of comparing,  the main in my 22,000 lines of code  
( LOC ) shareware is 13 LOC

The main in FBtoC is approximately 55 LOC

Brian S