Alpha g++ 2.95.2 optimizer doesn't scale?

[Richard Henderson]

On Sat, Sep 09, 2000 at 04:42:19PM -0400, Scott Davies wrote:
> After the g++ on the Alpha I use was upgraded to 2.95.2, one of my
> source files now causes the compiler (namely, the cc1plus process) to
> exhaust the machine's virtual memory when compiled with optimization
> on ("-O").  This is on a monster machine with 4 gigabytes of RAM and
> many more gigabytes of swap space, and the source file is only 6200
> lines long.  The file compiles fine with optimization turned off, and
> fine under Linux g++ 2.95.2 with optimization either on or off.

You'll have to provide a test case for anything meaningful to be done.

> A friend of mine tells me that a new optimizer has recently been added
> to the Alpha version of g++...

Not true.


r~