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From: johns@calvin.EE.CORNELL.EDU (John Sahr)
Newsgroups: gnu.gcc.bug
Subject: gcc "fails" in stage1 compile
Message-ID: <1407@calvin.EE.CORNELL.EDU>
Date: 17 Oct 89 14:57:18 GMT
Organization: Cornell Space Plasma Physics, Ithaca, NY
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Keywords: gcc 1.36 decstation stage1

computer: Decstation 3100, 8Mbyte memory
gcc v1.36, ftp'd from prep.ai.mit.edu

I have been attempting to install gcc-1.36 on a Decstation 3100, 8 Mb.
After running "config.gcc decstation", the first compile with cc runs
fine.

However, the stage 1 self compile grabs more and more and more virtual
memory, until the whole computer just stops (can't rlogin, can't login, etc).
I did remove the "-g" from the CFLAGS in the stage 1 compile.  Is there
an alternate compilation order, or something, that is less memory hungry?
Is there a minimum amount of real memory for gcc to compile in finite time?

We have a disk that we can construct a 400 Mb swap space on: would this help?

Of course, I would like very much to hear from someone who has got it 
running on a ds3100.

-- 
John Sahr,     Dept. of Electrical Eng., Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853
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