https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=69745
Bug ID: 69745 Summary: Too big precompiled headers seem to result in a silent compilation failure Product: gcc Version: 4.9.1 Status: UNCONFIRMED Severity: normal Priority: P3 Component: pch Assignee: unassigned at gcc dot gnu.org Reporter: vz-gcc at zeitlins dot org Target Milestone: --- This problem had been previously reported in https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-help/2011-12/msg00019.html and also http://stackoverflow.com/q/21008274/15275 and we've just run into it again: creating a precompiled header somehow "succeeds" while creating a 0 byte .gch file and the subsequent compilation using it _silently_ fails, i.e. the compiler exits with 1 without any error messages, not even when called with "-v" option. This was observed using the MinGW-w64 version of gcc (see the full specs below), but from the URLs given above it doesn't seem to be MinGW-specific, so I'm reporting it here. Target: i686-w64-mingw32 Configured with: ../../../src/gcc-4.9.1/configure --host=i686-w64-mingw32 --build=i686-w64-mingw32 --target=i686-w64-mingw32 --prefix=/mingw32 --with-sysroot=/c/mingw491/i686-491-win32-sjlj-rt_v3-rev3/mingw32 --with-gxx-include-dir=/mingw32/i686-w64-mingw32/include/c++ --enable-shared --enable-static --enable-targets=all --enable-multilib --enable-languages=ada,c,c++,fortran,objc,obj-c++,lto --enable-libstdcxx-time=yes --enable-threads=win32 --enable-libgomp --enable-libatomic --enable-lto --enable-graphite --enable-checking=release --enable-fully-dynamic-string --enable-version-specific-runtime-libs --enable-sjlj-exceptions --disable-isl-version-check --disable-cloog-version-check --disable-libstdcxx-pch --disable-libstdcxx-debug --enable-bootstrap --disable-rpath --disable-win32-registry --disable-nls --disable-werror --disable-symvers --with-gnu-as --with-gnu-ld --with-arch-32=i686 --with-arch-64=nocona --with-tune-32=generic --with-tune-64=core2 --with-libiconv --with-system-zlib --with-gmp=/c/mingw491/prerequisites/i686-w64-mingw32-static --with-mpfr=/c/mingw491/prerequisites/i686-w64-mingw32-static --with-mpc=/c/mingw491/prerequisites/i686-w64-mingw32-static --with-isl=/c/mingw491/prerequisites/i686-w64-mingw32-static --with-cloog=/c/mingw491/prerequisites/i686-w64-mingw32-static --enable-cloog-backend=isl --with-pkgversion='i686-win32-sjlj-rev3, Built by MinGW-W64 project' --with-bugurl=http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw-w64 CFLAGS='-O2 -pipe -I/c/mingw491/i686-491-win32-sjlj-rt_v3-rev3/mingw32/opt/include -I/c/mingw491/prerequisites/i686-zlib-static/include -I/c/mingw491/prerequisites/i686-w64-mingw32-static/include' CXXFLAGS='-O2 -pipe -I/c/mingw491/i686-491-win32-sjlj-rt_v3-rev3/mingw32/opt/include -I/c/mingw491/prerequisites/i686-zlib-static/include -I/c/mingw491/prerequisites/i686-w64-mingw32-static/include' CPPFLAGS= LDFLAGS='-pipe -L/c/mingw491/i686-491-win32-sjlj-rt_v3-rev3/mingw32/opt/lib -L/c/mingw491/prerequisites/i686-zlib-static/lib -L/c/mingw491/prerequisites/i686-w64-mingw32-static/lib -Wl,--large-address-aware' Thread model: win32 gcc version 4.9.1 (i686-win32-sjlj-rev3, Built by MinGW-W64 project)