From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 29142 invoked by alias); 13 Feb 2008 23:07:11 -0000 Received: (qmail 28994 invoked by uid 22791); 13 Feb 2008 23:07:10 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mail.gnu.org (HELO mx10.gnu.org) (199.232.76.166) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Wed, 13 Feb 2008 23:06:49 +0000 Received: from mailhub128.itcs.purdue.edu ([128.210.5.128]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JPQgh-0003pG-Og for gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org; Wed, 13 Feb 2008 18:06:47 -0500 Received: from [128.10.160.183] (nat-lwsn2133-01.cs.purdue.edu [128.10.19.251]) (authenticated bits=0) by mailhub128.itcs.purdue.edu (8.14.2/8.14.2/smtp-auth.purdue.edu) with ESMTP id m1DN6gJQ026386 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT) for ; Wed, 13 Feb 2008 18:06:42 -0500 Message-ID: <47B37803.4020205@cs.purdue.edu> Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2008 23:07:00 -0000 From: Tomas Kalibera User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (X11/20071022) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org Subject: Can GCC use more than 4G while compiling ? Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-PerlMx-Virus-Scanned: Yes X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.4-2.6 X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gcc-help-help@gcc.gnu.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: Sender: gcc-help-owner@gcc.gnu.org X-SW-Source: 2008-02/txt/msg00139.txt.bz2 Hello, GCC runs out of memory while compiling my very large generated source file. Although I have x86_64 with more than 4G of RAM, it seems that GCC only uses something less than 4G. Is there a way to allow GCC to use more ? Something like ggc-heap-size... I'm using GCC 4.2.3, compiled from sources, gcc binary is a 64-bit executable. Thanks, Tomas