[Qemu-devel] Re: qemu-0.14.0 doesn't compile on ppc32

[Peter Maydell]

On 21 February 2011 08:10, Paolo Bonzini <address@hidden> wrote:
> On 02/20/2011 06:32 PM, Peter Maydell wrote:
>> Some of qemu's code does seem to trigger rather excessive memory
>> use by gcc; for instance we've had problems with memory usage
>> building for ARM with gcc of target-sparc/translate.c wanting
>> gigabytes of RAM with some compiler flags:
>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/gcc-linaro/+bug/714921
>>
>> I suspect it's all those large switch statements...
>
> It's on my todo list to report it to GCC, since this memory-hog behavior is
> a GCC regression.

We've been working on this in Linaro, and the following two patches
have been posted upstream:

    http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2011-03/msg00193.html
    http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2011-03/msg00255.html

so you can probably cross that item off your todo list :-)

-- PMM