[LLVMdev] gcc running out of memory on ARMAsmParser.cpp

[Duncan Sands]

Hi Rob,

> I tried to compile LLVM on an Amazon EC2 Linux instance that doesn't
> have a ton of memory (~600 MB).  It keeps failing with:
>
>     llvm[4]: Compiling ARMAsmParser.cpp for Release build
>     g++: Internal error: Killed (program cc1plus)
>
> It's getting killed for using all the system memory.  Is this file
> known to trigger any bugs in gcc?  (version 4.1.2)

try compiling without optimization (configure with --disable-optimized).
While gcc-4.1.x has been known to miscompile LLVM, I never heard of it
going into an infinite loop during the LLVM compile, so presumably it
would finish eventually if you had enough memory.

Ciao, Duncan.