http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=53650
Bug #: 53650 Summary: large array causes huge memory use Classification: Unclassified Product: gcc Version: 4.7.0 Status: UNCONFIRMED Severity: major Priority: P3 Component: c++ AssignedTo: unassig...@gcc.gnu.org ReportedBy: da...@doublewise.net This problem did not exist in 4.6.x. The following program uses > 4 GiB of memory (more than my system has) during compilation. If I reduce the size of the array a bit, it still uses several GiB but does eventually compile (so the problem is not infinite recursion) and takes a very long time to compile. Compiling with optimizations on seems to eliminate the large memory usage but takes longer than I was willing to wait to compile. class Class { public: Class() {} }; int main() { Class table [2048][256] = {}; return 0; } Using something like int causes no problems and compiles quickly. This may also relate to a C++11 missed optimization opportunity, because this may suggest that the fact that Class has a constructor is making it non-POD, but the POD rules were relaxed in C++11 to make Class a POD structure (I think). Compiling with std=c++11 doesn't fix the problem, however. gcc -v Using built-in specs. COLLECT_GCC=gcc COLLECT_LTO_WRAPPER=/usr/libexec/gcc/x86_64-redhat-linux/4.7.0/lto-wrapper Target: x86_64-redhat-linux Configured with: ../configure --prefix=/usr --mandir=/usr/share/man --infodir=/usr/share/info --with-bugurl=http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla --enable-bootstrap --enable-shared --enable-threads=posix --enable-checking=release --disable-build-with-cxx --disable-build-poststage1-with-cxx --with-system-zlib --enable-__cxa_atexit --disable-libunwind-exceptions --enable-gnu-unique-object --enable-linker-build-id --with-linker-hash-style=gnu --enable-languages=c,c++,objc,obj-c++,java,fortran,ada,go,lto --enable-plugin --enable-initfini-array --enable-java-awt=gtk --disable-dssi --with-java-home=/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.5.0-gcj-1.5.0.0/jre --enable-libgcj-multifile --enable-java-maintainer-mode --with-ecj-jar=/usr/share/java/eclipse-ecj.jar --disable-libjava-multilib --with-ppl --with-cloog --with-tune=generic --with-arch_32=i686 --build=x86_64-redhat-linux Thread model: posix gcc version 4.7.0 20120507 (Red Hat 4.7.0-5) (GCC)