[Fwd: egcs, MySQL and internal compiler error]

[Jens Ellegiers <jellegie at ford dot com>]

Hi,

perhaps this is of interest to you regarding the compiler error I
submitted at the beginning of the week.

Nobody wrote:
> 
> Chris Trown wrote:
> >
> >      Ok, I think I know the cause of the error and a fix.
> >
> >         Cause: Not enough virtual memory.
> >
> >         Soln: Increase the Swap space.
> >
> >      When I last tried to build mysql on my linux box, I hadn't added the huge
> > swap partition I have.  I also use this box as a web search engine, so it
> > requires a HUGE amount of swapspace.
> >
> >      Once I added the swapspace, egcs built MySQL just fine.
> >
> >      I think that the error message that egcs produces is inadequate.  It
> > should say "virtual memory exceeded" instead of "Internal compiler error".
> >
> >      Thanks to the member of this list who pointed out that the problem was
> > related to egcs compiling large files.  That prompted me to try again with the
> > larger swap space.  Note that I compiled it with all the optomizations(-O6)
> > turned on.
> >
> Note the remark from "monty": If compilation fails due to compiler
> errors like:
>         "internal error"
>         "Out Of mem"
>         "..."
> one should use the --low-memory flag for configure. I have about 500
> (!!!) Meg
> swap (on a HP UX 10.20 machine) but compilation failed. After disabling
> the "-O"
> it all compiled and MySQL seems stable. Actually this configure option
> is
> described in CH17 from the Manual.
> 
> Happy ..,
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Viele Gruesse, regards,
Jens Ellegiers

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