On 27 November 2012 13:45, Gerd Hoffmann <kra...@redhat.com> wrote: > On 11/27/12 14:24, Peter Maydell wrote: >> 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
In that case it is a new (or regressed) gcc bug and we should be pursuing it with the upstream gcc folk. We still shouldn't be putting random workarounds in our configure script. -- PMM
