c/2160: signal 11 when compiling large generated program

[Anton Ertl]

jsm28@gcc.gnu.org wrote:
>     Feedback at http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-bugs/2001-06/msg01531.html
>     (not sent to gcc-gnats, so not filed with this PR).

Should I do something else than replying to all recipients of your mail?

>     Excess memory consumption is still a bug; changed from
>     ice-on-legal-code to sw-bug.

I finally managed to compile this file on an Alpha with 1GB with
gcc-3.0 with

gcc -mieee -c engine.i

Top showed about 1550MB virtual memory consumption during most of the
time.  Top showed that the CPU was mostly in system or idle mode, with
only about 0.5% user time; took about 30 hours.  The compiler produced
a file engine.o, so I assume the compilation went ok (unfortunately I
was not smart enough to log the output and status).

- anton