Problem compiling GCC 4.0 RC1 on powerpc-ibm-aix5.2.0.0

[Daniel Jacobowitz]

On Wed, Apr 20, 2005 at 08:16:22PM +0100, Nix wrote:
> On 14 Apr 2005, John David Anglin spake:
> >> : build/genattrtab /home/kate/gcc-4.0.0-20050410/src/gcc-4.0.0-20050410/gcc/config/rs6000/ rs6000.md > tmp-attrtab.c
> >> : 
> >> : out of memory allocating 12016 bytes after a total of 4161654476 bytes
> > 
> > You need to increase the application limits for data on your system.
> 
> No, something is very wrong here, I think. genattrtab has allocated
> *4Gb*!
> 
> Not even the monster which is x86 needs anywhere near that much storage
> when running genattrtab.
> 
> Whether this is a genattrtab bug or a genattrtab miscompilation is a
> question best left to those with access to this platform (i.e, I
> can't answer it).

Note that that's a total allocation, not a peak allocation.  The 4GB
total isn't unlikely, with all the PPC DFAs.

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Daniel Jacobowitz
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