Re: [Qemu-devel] qemu-0.14.0 doesn't compile on ppc32

[Peter Maydell]

On 20 February 2011 16:56, Aurelien Jarno <address@hidden> 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...

-- PMM