On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 02:45:07PM +0100, Gerd Hoffmann wrote: > On 11/27/12 14:24, Peter Maydell wrote: > > On 27 November 2012 08:34, Paolo Bonzini <pbonz...@redhat.com> wrote: > >> Some versions of GCC require insane (>2GB) amounts of memory > >> to compile translate.o. As a countermeasure, compile it > >> with -O1. This should fix the buildbot failure for > >> default_x86_64_fedora16. > > > > This is a well known bug in old gcc (ie fixed in 4.5, 4.6 and > > trunk a year ago). Use a newer gcc, or a 64 bit build system > > with a reasonable amount of RAM, or as a workaround apply some > > suitable compiler flags by passing configure > > '--extra-cflags=-fno-var-tracking'. This patch definitely > > shouldn't be applied as we shouldn't be hampering the majority > > for the benefit of old broken systems. > > It isn't that simple. It's Fedora 17 with gcc 4.7.2 which runs oom > while compiling translate.c
Even apply Peter's suggestion? Do all gcc 4.7.2 on various platform have the same problem, or it only happen on Fedora 17. Regards, chenwj -- Wei-Ren Chen (陳韋任) Computer Systems Lab, Institute of Information Science, Academia Sinica, Taiwan (R.O.C.) Tel:886-2-2788-3799 #1667 Homepage: http://people.cs.nctu.edu.tw/~chenwj