On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 9:10 AM, Paolo Bonzini <pbonz...@redhat.com> wrote: > On 02/20/2011 06:32 PM, Peter Maydell wrote: >> >> On 20 February 2011 16:56, Aurelien Jarno<aurel...@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 >
compiling with -fno-var-tracking i just succesfully built it without any out of memory error. So it seems it's possible to compile qemu on ppc32 without a ridiculous high amount of ram with gcc-4.5.2.