Subject: Re: Internal gcc errors
To: None <chris@collegium.co.uk>
From: Patrick Welche <prlw1@cam.ac.uk>
List: port-arm32
Date: 07/06/1997 16:24:03
Chris Rutter wrote:
>
> I was trying to compile `xzx' (a Spectrum emulator, supposed to work on
> Linux/BSD), but a particularly large file gives one of the two following
> errors:
>
> assertion "symbolP->bsym != 0" failed: file "symbols.c", line 119
> gcc: Internal compiler error, program got fatal signal 6
>
> or
>
> "virtual memory exhausted"
>
> I can tell you (having 41mb of RAM and 40mb of swap) looking at xosview,
> my swap is 0% used, and memory is roughly 70% used. So, how do I compile
> this file?
I always get confused by this, but ISTR it's something like
unlimit datasize
and bump up MaxProcs (?) in the bootloader to say 64, 80 or so ?
Patrick