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Re: Patch: doc/install.texi:Specific alpha-dec-osf virtual memory exhausted
- From: Richard Henderson <rth at redhat dot com>
- To: rbrown64 at csc dot com dot au
- Cc: gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org, rupp at gnat dot com, kenner at vlsi1 dot ultra dot nyu dot edu
- Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2002 19:34:47 -0700
- Subject: Re: Patch: doc/install.texi:Specific alpha-dec-osf virtual memory exhausted
- References: <OF4A045FC5.36036917-ONCA256C1E.00372044@int.csc.com.au>
On Fri, Aug 23, 2002 at 08:08:47PM +1000, rbrown64@csc.com.au wrote:
> * doc/install.texi (Specific, alpha*-dec-osf*):
> "virtual memory exhausted" workarounds. Bump binutils version.
I don't see why you're bumping the binutils version;
afaik, it hasn't worked in a _long_ time. Makeing
sure that 2.13 errored out was merely incidental.
Also, there was a typo in the url.
Applied the following.
r~
Index: install.texi
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/gcc/gcc/gcc/doc/install.texi,v
retrieving revision 1.137
diff -c -p -d -r1.137 install.texi
*** install.texi 29 Aug 2002 19:11:37 -0000 1.137
--- install.texi 30 Aug 2002 02:32:12 -0000
*************** As of GCC 3.2, versions before @code{alp
*** 1712,1717 ****
--- 1712,1724 ----
supported. (These are the versions which identify themselves as DEC
OSF/1.)
+ In Digital Unix V4.0, virtual memory exhausted bootstrap failures
+ may be fixed by configuring with @option{--with-gc=simple},
+ reconfiguring Kernel Virtual Memory and Swap parameters
+ per the @command{/usr/sbin/sys_check} Tuning Suggestions,
+ or applying the patch in
+ @uref{http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2002-08/msg00822.html}.
+
In Tru64 UNIX V5.1, Compaq introduced a new assembler that does not
currently (2001-06-13) work with @command{mips-tfile}. As a workaround,
we need to use the old assembler, invoked via the barely documented