cc1plus: out of memory error

[Ian Lance Taylor]

Dmitri Fedorov <dmitrif.xandros@gmail.com> writes:

> I'm compiling a 45M cpp file generated by gsoap on Debian lenny that's
> running as a virtual machine on the VMware workstation and g++ is
> quitting on me.
>
> First it was "virtual memory exhausted: Cannot allocate memory" error,
> after that I set a limit on virtual memory and now I get "cc1plus: out
> of memory".
>
> Could anybody give me hint what direction to dig? Compiler options?
> Virtual memory size?
>
> Of course I cannot change the cpp file, and this is gcc 4.3.

If you can't change the C++ file, then your only real choices are to
compile without optimization, or to add more swap space.

Ian