c/2160: signal 11 when compiling large generated program

[Joseph S. Myers]

The following reply was made to PR c/2160; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@cam.ac.uk>
To: <anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at>
Cc: <gcc-bugs@gcc.gnu.org>,  <gcc-gnats@gcc.gnu.org>
Subject: Re: c/2160: signal 11 when compiling large generated program
Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2001 11:05:32 +0100 (BST)

 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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 Joseph S. Myers
 jsm28@cam.ac.uk