Re: cvs build problem with 2.95

[Jim Blandy <jimb@redhat.com>]

Baurjan Ismagulov <ibr@ata.cs.hun.edu.tr> writes:
> On Sun, Apr 18, 2004 at 12:13:41PM -0400, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> > 9 is SIGKILL.  That suggests the problem has nothing to do with your
> > compiler, and everything to do with your system resource limits, or
> > kernel.
> 
> Ah, yes, this was OOM; thank you! 256MB RAM + 128MB swap had worked for
> gdb 6.0 compilation, that is why I didn't think about this. Adding 256MB
> swap fixed the problem, albeit with intensive thrashing. What in this
> file makes gcc consume 350MB of virtual memory 8) , according to top? Is
> it an essential part of gdb? In other words, can I build a "minimal" gdb
> without it? I'm going to compile various versions for testing, and I
> wanted to apply patches on clean trees.

The file you're compiling is part of SID, the simulator, not GDB.  SID
contains a lot of really huge machine-generated files, of which
asm-semsw.cxx is one.  I think that's the file that actually
implements the instruction set of the ARM.

From what you've posted, it doesn't seem that you actually want the
simulator; why not just drop it?