Turbo C on 386i

[Kenneth Porter]

On a 386i Turbo C 2.0 and Turbo C++ 1.0 (command-line compiler, TCC.EXE)
occasionally go into an infinite compile cycle, recompiling the same file
over and over, as if they were expanding the command-line filename
argument over and over to the same value.  This happens when the directory
has many files (over 100) and is sensitive to directory order (as revealed
by "ls -f").   Moving the offending source file to another slot in the
directory (by mv-ing another file and the offending file out of the
directory and back in in the opposite order) seems to cure the problem,
but may cause a different file to fail.

Has anyone else experienced this?  Is it Borland's or Sun's fault?  Does
it occur on architectures other than the 386i?

Ken (shiva at well.sf.ca.us)