[Qemu-devel] [Bug 798258] Re: System hang when compiling QEMU on ARM host

2011-06-16 Thread specx2
Using the ./configure --extra-cflags=-fno-var-tracking gave the following result: ... CCi386-softmmu/translate.o cc1: out of memory allocating 14633640 bytes after a total of 60088320 bytes make[1]: *** [translate.o] Error 1 make: *** [subdir-i386-softmmu] Error 2 -- You received this bug n

[Qemu-devel] [Bug 798258] Re: System hang when compiling QEMU on ARM host

2011-06-16 Thread Peter Maydell
This is a gcc bug (fixed in newer versions of gcc), which causes it to use much more memory than it should do when compiling certain files. You can work around it by configuring with ./configure --extra-cflags=-fno-var-tracking (this will result in worse debugging information, but if you want to