Mingw gcc 4.4.0 64bit garbage collector bug?

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John Fine wrote:
> I'm using a Mingw build of gcc 4.4.0 in Windows XP64 to compile a very 
> large .cpp file (193KB main file plus many headers).
>
> cc1plus.exe exits with return code 128 with no error message and 
> without creating any output files.
>
> I checked the behavior with procmon (from sysinternals) and I see that 
> it stopped reading include files at a very unlikely spot and then did 
> a large amount of processing and many changes in its virtual memory 
> size before exiting (with no further I/O).
>
> This seems to me like it implies a failure in cc1plus's internal 
> garbage collector.
>
> The system has 16GB of ram.  The cc1plus process hit a top memory use 
> of 128MB.  So it shouldn't have failed due to lack of memory.
>
> I know this request for help is rather lame at this point:  I'm not 
> giving you a way to reproduce the problem.  I'm not the person who 
> installed Mingw on this system, so (at the moment) I don't have any 
> details of where this exact version of gcc came from nor how it was 
> installed.
>
> But have you heard of any gcc/Mingw garbage collect bugs?  And/or do 
> these symptoms sound like something else to you?  Can you think of any 
> short cuts to investigating or solving the problem?
>
> I don't want to go through a detailed investigation to nail all this 
> down if someone else has already found the answer and I just needed to 
> ask.
>
> Mingw is not one of the environments I normally use, so I know nothing 
> about what debugging tools might be practical in this environment.
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Are you using mingw-w64.sf.net or mingw.sf.net?