FreeBSD 7 buildworld error

[Erik Trulsson]

On Fri, Mar 07, 2008 at 08:54:53AM -0800, Jason Evans wrote:
> Joshua Coombs wrote:
>> Derek Taylor wrote:
>>> On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 09:50 PM Sean <sean at gothic.net.au> wrote:
>>>> Check /etc/make.conf for CFLAGS, and if present remove it.
>>> 
>>> This fixed the problem.
>>> 
>>> Thank you.
>>> 
>>> -Derek.
>> 
>> I can confirm a failure in the same spot.  What concerns me is in both my 
>> failure, and Derek's, the malloc is failing well below what limit says 
>> should be allowed.
>> 
>> bin/cc/cc_int/../cc_tools 
>> -I/usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/cc/cc_int/../../../../contrib/gcc 
>> -I/usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/cc/cc_int/../../../../contrib/gcc/config 
>> -I/usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/cc/cc_int/../../../../contrib/gcclibs/include 
>> -I/usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/cc/cc_int/../../../../contrib/gcclibs/libcpp/include 
>> -I/usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/cc/cc_int/../../../../contrib/gcclibs/libdecnumber  
>> -I/usr/obj/usr/src/tmp/legacy/usr/include -c ../cc_tools/insn-attrtab.c
>> 
>> cc1: out of memory allocating 136475392 bytes
>> *** Error code 1
>> 
>> Stop in /usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/cc/cc_int.
>> *** Error code 1
>> 
>> cyrix-dlc# limit
>> cputime      unlimited
>> filesize     unlimited
>> datasize     524288 kbytes
>> stacksize    65536 kbytes
>> coredumpsize unlimited
>> memoryuse    unlimited
>> vmemoryuse   unlimited
>> descriptors  957
>> memorylocked unlimited
>> maxproc      478
>> sbsize       unlimited
>> 
>> cc1 was only trying to request 130MB, my datasize is 512MB, why did it 
>> fail?
> 
> It looks to me like gcc is trying to allocate a single 130MiB object, but 
> you don't say anything about how much memory is already in use.  It may 
> well be that there are no remaining places in the memory map to place such 
> a large object.

And that particular file (insn-attrtab.c, which is a machine-generated part
of gcc itself,) is known to require much more memory to compile than most
other source files.
If gcc runs out of memory anywhere during a buildworld it is most likely
when compiling that particular file.



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