c/2160: signal 11 when compiling large generated program

[Joseph S. Myers]

On Mon, 23 Jul 2001, Anton Ertl wrote:

> >     (not sent to gcc-gnats, so not filed with this PR).
> 
> Should I do something else than replying to all recipients of your mail?

It needs to go to gcc-gnats@gcc.gnu.org to be filed with the PR.  GNATS
status change messages used to include this address in the headers, but it
seems they don't any more.  This is a bug in the bug tracking system
configuration.

> >     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

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