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Subject: [Qemu-devel] Re: qemu-0.14.0 doesn't compile on ppc32
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To: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Cc: nello martuscielli <ppc.addon@gmail.com>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>

On 02/20/2011 06:32 PM, Peter Maydell wrote:
> On 20 February 2011 16:56, Aurelien Jarno<aurelien@aurel32.net>  wrote:
>> On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 03:01:12PM +0100, nello martuscielli wrote:
>>>    CC    x86_64-softmmu/translate.o
>>> {standard input}: Assembler messages:
>>> {standard input}:11903788: Warning: end of file not at end of a line;
>>> newline inserted
>>> gcc: Internal error: Killed (program cc1)
>
>> It is most likely a compiler/setup issue. My guess your machine got out
>> of memory, and the OOM killer killed cc1. Try adding more memory and/or
>> swap, it should work.
>
> Some of qemu's code does seem to trigger rather excessive memory
> use by gcc; for instance we've had problems with memory usage
> building for ARM with gcc of target-sparc/translate.c wanting
> gigabytes of RAM with some compiler flags:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/gcc-linaro/+bug/714921
>
> I suspect it's all those large switch statements...

It's on my todo list to report it to GCC, since this memory-hog behavior 
is a GCC regression.

Paolo