You guys will like this one ... The most recent test is with 4.0.0 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.0, but it also happens with 3.4.3 and 4.0.0 on sparc-sun-solaris2.9.
In http://www.math.purdue.edu/~lucier/bugzilla/6/ you'll find compressed versions of test2.c and gambit.h. With this command line peano-66% /pkgs/gcc-4.0.0/bin/gcc -Wall -W -Wno-unused -O1 -fno-math-errno -fschedule-insns2 -fno-trapping-math -fno-strict-aliasing -fomit-frame-pointer -fPIC -fno-common -mieee-fp -rdynamic -shared -D___DYNAMIC -D___SINGLE_HOST -E test2.c -v > ! test2.i Using built-in specs. Target: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu Configured with: ../configure --prefix=/pkgs/gcc-4.0.0 Thread model: posix gcc version 4.0.0 /export/pkgs/gcc-4.0.0/bin/../libexec/gcc/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/4.0.0/cc1 -E -quiet -v -iprefix /export/pkgs/gcc-4.0.0/bin/../lib/gcc/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/4.0.0/ -D___DYNAMIC -D___SINGLE_HOST test2.c -mieee-fp -mtune=k8 -Wall -W -Wno-unused -fno-math-errno -fschedule-insns2 -fno-trapping-math -fno-strict-aliasing -fomit-frame-pointer -fPIC -fno-common -O1 ignoring nonexistent directory "/export/pkgs/gcc-4.0.0/bin/../lib/gcc/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/4.0.0/../../../../x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/include" ignoring nonexistent directory "/usr/local/include" ignoring duplicate directory "/pkgs/gcc-4.0.0/lib/gcc/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/4.0.0/include" ignoring nonexistent directory "/pkgs/gcc-4.0.0/lib/gcc/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/4.0.0/../../../../x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/include" #include "..." search starts here: #include <...> search starts here: /export/pkgs/gcc-4.0.0/bin/../lib/gcc/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/4.0.0/include /pkgs/gcc-4.0.0/include /usr/include End of search list. memory is rapidly exhausted (even with 16GB of virtual memory). Brad -- Summary: Infinite memory usage in preprocessor Product: gcc Version: 4.0.0 Status: UNCONFIRMED Severity: normal Priority: P2 Component: preprocessor AssignedTo: unassigned at gcc dot gnu dot org ReportedBy: lucier at math dot purdue dot edu CC: gcc-bugs at gcc dot gnu dot org GCC build triplet: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu GCC host triplet: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu GCC target triplet: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=21410
