HELP! GCC exhausts 3b1 virtual memory

William Herndon herndon at milo.SRC.Honeywell.COM
Tue Jun 6 23:19:39 AEST 1989


   First, of all thanks to all those who sent me patches that would
   allow gcc to compile on my 3b1.  

   Now, on to the current problem.  I have managed to get gcc, version
   1.35, to compile using cc.  The executable of the parser is about
   6.6M and appears to run correctly.  After completing the initial
   make, I tried to recompile gcc with itself, as the installation guide
   suggested.  The compile proceeds smoothly until the cc1 starts work
   on c-parse.tab.c.  After thinking about it for a few minutes unix
   complains about virtual memory being exhausted, and the make aborts.

   Below is all the relevant information I can think of:

     - My system is a 3b1 with 2M of onboard memory. ( 40M drive ).
     - I do not have Bison running so a new c-parse.tab.c has not been
       created.
     - The compilation always aborts in the same place.
     - I have attempted to create more space ( swap I assume ) by
       running as root with no window manager.  I have even gone
       so far as to kill off the phone manager and lp scheduler to 
       free up more space.
     - The initial compilation with cc was using -O.  So gcc, cc1, and
       cpp are optimized.
     - I have the same problem attempting to compile GNU Emacs file 
       regexp.c.

    Any body have ideas?  Encountered the same problem?  Any and all
    help is appreciated.

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William R. Herndon                      WHerndon at cim-vax.honeywell.com 
                                        herndon at src.honeywell.com
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