Bug#506013: gcc-4.3: Internal error on mipsel upon compiling opal

[Eugen Dedu <Eugen.Dedu@pu-pm.univ-fcomte.fr>]

Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt wrote:
> Martin Michlmayr <tbm@cyrius.com> writes:
> > * Martin Zobel-Helas <zobel@ftbfs.de> [2008-12-26 12:47]:
> > > > > g++: Internal error: Killed (program cc1plus)
> > > > This error typically indicates that GCC ran out of memory.  I'm not
> > > > sure how much RAM the build machine (modi) has, but I guess not
> > > > enough... Martin: who runs modi and how much RAM does it have?
> > > One of: luk, HE, dato. not sure ATM.
> > >
> > > IIRC 128MB
> > Adding those folks to CC.
>
> I do. I don't file bugs about these issues (and there are quite a lot of
> them, actually) exactly because this is usually a RAM problem. How can I
> be of help? :-)

Hi,

Two propositions:

1. Change the gcc message to something like: "Out of memory".
2. Doesn't the machine have a swap sufficient to compile a 60 KB file?!

--
Eugen