William Stein wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 12:48 AM, Dan Drake <[email protected]> wrote:
>> I installed an Ubuntu Karmic virtual machine to see how Sage compiles
>> there...and right now, it doesn't.
>>
>> I've tried on a 64-bit and 32-bit VM, with between 768 and about 1250 MB
>> of RAM allocated to the VM, and it consistently fails while compiling
>> base3.c from pari (src/basemath/base3.c).
>>
>> When it gets to base3, the compiler gradually uses up more and more
>> memory, until it either gets killed by the kernel OOM stuff, or dies
>> with "gcc: Internal error: Killed (program cc1)".
>>
>> This is with 4.1.2.alpha1, but the same behavior occurred with 4.1.1. In
>> Karmic, the compiler is:
>>
>> $ gcc -v
>> Using built-in specs.
>> Target: i486-linux-gnu
>> Configured with: ../src/configure -v --with-pkgversion='Ubuntu
>> 4.4.1-3ubuntu3' --with-bugurl=file:///usr/share/doc/gcc-4.4/README.Bugs
>> --enable-languages=c,c++,fortran,objc,obj-c++ --prefix=/usr
>> --enable-shared --enable-multiarch --enable-linker-build-id
>> --with-system-zlib --libexecdir=/usr/lib --without-included-gettext
>> --enable-threads=posix --with-gxx-include-dir=/usr/include/c++/4.4
>> --program-suffix=-4.4 --enable-nls --enable-clocale=gnu
>> --enable-libstdcxx-debug --enable-mpfr --enable-objc-gc
>> --enable-targets=all --disable-werror --with-arch-32=i486
>> --with-tune=generic --enable-checking=release --build=i486-linux-gnu
>> --host=i486-linux-gnu --target=i486-linux-gnu
>> Thread model: posix
>> gcc version 4.4.1 (Ubuntu 4.4.1-3ubuntu3)
>>
>> On a current Ubuntu Hardy system (like sage.math, but a 32-bit VM with
>> 768 MB RAM) the compiler goes through base3.c with no trouble.
>>
>> Can anyone else confirm (or perhaps even fix) this?
> 
> This is a GCC bug which has been discussed a lot on the Pari listed,
> and reported in at least three places to GCC and Ubuntu.   The only
> stated workaround at present is to build pari with -O0 instead of -O3:
> 
> http://www.nabble.com/Ubuntu-9.10-and-gcc-4.4-failure-td24853751.html
> 

Following the links leads to this bug report:

http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=41101#c23

which indicates that this may have been fixed yesterday in the GCC trunk.

Jason


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