cracraft@wheaties.ai.mit.edu (Stuart Cracraft) (04/13/89)
Return-Path: rdahp!scott@ksuvax1.cis.ksu.edu Received: from harris.cis.ksu.edu by life.ai.mit.edu; Wed, 12 Apr 89 02:14:33 EDT Return-Path: <rdahp!scott@ksuvax1.cis.ksu.edu> Received: from ksuvax1.cis.ksu.edu by harris.cis.ksu.edu (5.59/SWH-2.03); id AA01040; Wed, 12 Apr 89 01:13:50 CDT Received: by ksuvax1.cis.ksu.edu (5.59++/CIS1.1) id AA10031; Wed, 12 Apr 89 01:14:44 CDT Received: by rdahp; Tue, 11 Apr 89 09:56:57 PST Date: Tue, 11 Apr 89 09:56:57 PST From: rdahp!scott@ksuvax1.cis.ksu.edu (Scott Hammond) Message-Id: <8904111756.AA13114@rdahp> To: ksuvax1!cracraft@wheaties.ai.mit.edu Subject: Re: GNU CC on a stock ATT System V/386 Newsgroups: gnu.gcc In-Reply-To: <1558@gluteus.ai.mit.edu> Organization: R & D Associates, Marina del Rey, CA Cc: In article <1558@gluteus.ai.mit.edu> you write: > >Hi, > >This letter describes my experiences with GNU CC ("gcc") >on a stock ATT System V/386 machine (Toshiba 5100). > >The system compiler is a pcc-derivative. Compilation >succeeded with the first Make (as described in INSTALL). > >However, upon doing: > > make CC=stage1/gcc CFLAGS="-g -O -Bstage1/" c-parse.tab.c > >... the make failed. The symptom of the failure is a lot >of disk accesses, maybe a lot of compiler temporary-file >work, and just an infinite suspension of belief. I had a similar experience. The machine thrashed for 14 hours on c-parse.tab.c. The solution was to compile just that file again with the native compiler, and then let gcc rebuild the rest of itself (and disable -O for this pass). Then you should be able to compile c-parse.tab.c with gcc (and go around again). There is another solution though. At that time this machine (386, Interactive's SYSVr3 1.0.4) had only 2 meg, and compiling the parse file really pushed it over the edge and literally thrashed to death. Upon upgrading to 4meg, the same file compiled in a matter of minutes. -- Scott Hammond, R & D Associates, Marina del Rey, CA (213) 822-1715 : {ksuvax1,zardoz}!rdahp!scott : scott@harris.cis.ksu.edu