Excessive resource consumption (GCC 3.1)

[Gerald Pfeifer]

On Thu, 9 Aug 2001, Daniel Berlin wrote:
>>   stage2/xgcc -Bstage2/ -B/sw/test/gcc/SunOS/sparc-sun-solaris2.6/bin/ -c -DIN_GCC    -g -O2 -W -Wall -Wwrite-strings -Wstrict-prototypes -Wmissing-prototypes   -DHAVE_CONFIG_H    -I. -Ijava -I/sw/test/gcc/cvs/gcc -I/sw/test/gcc/cvs/gcc/java -I/sw/test/gcc/cvs/gcc/config -I/sw/test/gcc/cvs/gcc/../include /sw/test/gcc/cvs/gcc/java/parse.c -o java/parse.o
>>   cc1: Cannot allocate 8744016 bytes after allocating 27115520 bytes
>> This is a box with 80MB of main memory and 160MB of swap.
> Hmmmmm. Maybe it's time i go clean up some more memory leaks?

It seems so. :-(

>> Am I the only one finding this unacceptable?
> No, I think it's just plain sad, to be honest.

Okay, so I filed a PR: "middle-end/3973: GCC fails to bootstrap with
80+160MB memory / optimization".

This is a regression from GCC 2.95 and GCC 3.0.x, so I'll plan to mark
this high priority in time for GCC 3.1.

Gerald
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