Bug#475546: gcc-4.2: Appears to enter infinite loop, claiming more and more memory
Package: gcc-4.2
Version: 4.2.3-3
Severity: normal
While trying to compile a program called tomoe (can be downloaded at
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=193138&package_id=227469
), gcc stops working properly in that it fails to complete the
following operation, as generated by the configure script without any
options in the Makefile:
gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I../.. -I../../bindings/ruby -I/usr/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/lib/glib-2.0/include -DCONFDIR=\"/usr/local/etc/tomoe\" -DDATADIR=\"/usr/local/share/tomoe\" -DDICT_DATADIR=\"/usr/local/share/tomoe/dict\" -DRECOGNIZER_DATADIR=\"/usr/local/share/tomoe/recognizer\" -DDICT_MODULEDIR=\"/usr/local/lib/tomoe/module/dict\" -DRECOGNIZER_MODULEDIR=\"/usr/local/lib/tomoe/module/recognizer\" -I../../lib -I/subversion-1 -DG_LOG_DOMAIN=\"Tomoe/Dict:Unihan\" -DRUBY_EXTDIR=\"\" -DRUBY_LIBDIR=\"\" -g -O2 -Wall -Wmissing-declarations -Wmissing-prototypes -Wpointer-arith -Wcast-align -MT unihan_la-tomoe-unihan.lo -MD -MP -MF .deps/unihan_la-tomoe-unihan.Tpo -c tomoe-unihan.c -fPIC -DPIC -o .libs/unihan_la-tomoe-unihan.o
This was reproducible (after "make clean" and then "make" again). It
is possible that it would have completed sometime, but not after a
sane amount of time and approximately 1.5 GB of memory allocation
(after which I used Ctrl+C to stop the build process). Leaving -O2
away in the command line causes the file to be compiled properly.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.22-3-k7 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages gcc-4.2 depends on:
ii binutils 2.18.1~cvs20080103-4 The GNU assembler, linker and bina
ii cpp-4.2 4.2.3-3 The GNU C preprocessor
ii gcc-4.2-base 4.2.3-3 The GNU Compiler Collection (base
ii libc6 2.7-10 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libgcc1 1:4.3.0-1 GCC support library
Versions of packages gcc-4.2 recommends:
ii libc6-dev 2.7-10 GNU C Library: Development Librari
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