GCC is freezing when compiling a big TU with the -g option
Andrew Haley
aph@redhat.com
Mon Jul 10 09:56:00 GMT 2006
Olivier Langlois writes:
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> Olivier Langlois
> http://www.olivierlanglois.net
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> > Are you sure it doesn't eventually terminate? It might be that it's
> > writing an enormous amount of debuginfo to a temporary asm fie.
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> Yes I'm pretty much sure that the compiler is really dead. There is no
> more HD activity when the compiler gets stuck and I have let the
> compiler running during a whole night! It is as if I was reaching a
> hardcoded limit on the maximum number of functions that the compiler can
> process for a single TU with '-g'. It is especially true with template
> instantiation. A lot of included classes declarations are declaring
> private STL containers. I have been able to get the compilation further
> by encapsulating/hiding the STL containers declaration away from the
> header files.
OK, so my guess is right. The only way ahead is to try to debug the
compiler.
Andrew.
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