Hi Sébastien, On 01-10-2019 17:35, Sébastien Villemot wrote: > It failed to build for a 3rd time. So the problem is not transient, and > I could reproduce it on the porterbox. > > For a given C++ source file, the generated assembly file is 303Mb > large. Then the assembler hits the virtual space memory limit (which is > only 2Gb on mipsel, if I understand correctly). > > The problem did not happen with the toolchain that was used to compile > octave 5.1.0-1 (gcc 8 and binutils 2.31). However, I’m under the > impression that it’s not really a bug, but rather another manifestation > of the limitations of 32-bit architectures (as was discussed on -devel@ > last August). I agree. > I found two possible workarounds: either dropping -g, or replacing -O2 > with -O. > > I’m tempted to drop -g for that particular file and particular arch. > Does that seem ok to you? As I have only limited understanding in that area, I can't advice you on that (maybe other release team members can). But for now I would say, go ahead, you can always revisit it. Paul
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