From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1SaeFQ-0005Jt-Tq for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 02 Jun 2012 02:39:25 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 45273E01F1; Sat, 2 Jun 2012 02:39:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-qa0-f52.google.com (mail-qa0-f52.google.com [209.85.216.52]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 35DB4E062B for ; Sat, 2 Jun 2012 02:37:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: by qabj34 with SMTP id j34so910781qab.11 for ; Fri, 01 Jun 2012 19:37:42 -0700 (PDT) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=google.com; s=20120113; h=sender:mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject :from:to:content-type:x-gm-message-state; bh=6e8gWv0aIkQj3P7rQNQHsyKf/c75gHU2bWh++H40mgM=; b=Hqek9iIGNBOHwkiO+2DxUotSFTyn/idILU2VeDZU3e36ox3NwSKe10NiGbZCVkTTka CwuwJtYjxhf99Iei9N5yatCWU6YQsoU/GEH8kdD6sNw5OP89Oz+NUewIRRzB37UYT2fu dU8AuuSIO8O4JbFKd4NZgG6CPBOHutU5RbfSvQGsSm1Bkz6wVWPfo4yo2UiyRLcDnIWc oJVuldpienmASLwnldladWrz9WAph4khs9sLXvaJKhciEB7UPWHr5BHSiNVuC9WR0Hb7 muVOu1qk7P0StwLq8Ewgx/uTr67eWs4nlOJZVGMbJh2VgTJni+emNwjIFIUsx3xcY0z9 uduA== Received: by 10.224.205.8 with SMTP id fo8mr6379053qab.78.1338604662159; Fri, 01 Jun 2012 19:37:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail-vb0-f53.google.com (mail-vb0-f53.google.com [209.85.212.53]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id cz12sm6616214qab.5.2012.06.01.19.37.40 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Fri, 01 Jun 2012 19:37:40 -0700 (PDT) Sender: Nilesh Govindarajan Received: by vbbfc26 with SMTP id fc26so1889363vbb.40 for ; Fri, 01 Jun 2012 19:37:40 -0700 (PDT) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.220.240.147 with SMTP id la19mr4845092vcb.47.1338604660223; Fri, 01 Jun 2012 19:37:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.220.112.66 with HTTP; Fri, 1 Jun 2012 19:37:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.220.112.66 with HTTP; Fri, 1 Jun 2012 19:37:40 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: <4FC3DA4E.9030009@xunil.at> Date: Sat, 2 Jun 2012 08:07:40 +0530 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ~gcc-4.7.0 From: Nilesh Govindrajan To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=14dae9cfc16844706704c1742f39 X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQkS81Fpi8z/TD9hg3idyuVUc+3LrLjpJPL06CFbjWSdI13D+pj3oay6ncn7/kf7rhC6js8l X-Archives-Salt: 3276df59-5f08-4cef-8a56-412444c3b72e X-Archives-Hash: 2b9cab2f271e05d01d446d8c1b6fea7d --14dae9cfc16844706704c1742f39 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 On Jun 2, 2012 6:08 AM, "walt" wrote: > > On 05/29/2012 04:54 AM, walt wrote: >> >> Maybe a year ago I started having problems building virtualbox on my >> older/smaller machine. There is one place which ran through my puny >> 1GB of ram and then went on to fill up another 2GB of swap before >> oomkill stepped in. >> >> That turned out to be a gcc bug, and a proper fix was added to gcc >> 4.7.0 but not back-ported to 4.5.3, which I'm still using. >> >> Since then I scavenged half of that 1GB of RAM for my wife's machine, >> so it should be fun to try to build virtualbox with the other half :) > > > Very cool :) I just built virtualbox with gcc-4.7.0 on my old machine > with 0.5 GB of ram and had no problems whatever. I also pulled from > Linus.git and compiled his latest kernel with gcc-4.7.0, no problems. > > So far, so good. > > > Has anyone tried compiling chromium 20 (as of yesterday) and libreoffice 3.5.4.2 using gcc 4.7.0? I am unable to do so. Using unstable Amd64. -- Nilesh Govindrajan http://nileshgr.com --14dae9cfc16844706704c1742f39 Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

On Jun 2, 2012 6:08 AM, "walt" <w41ter@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 05/29/2012 04:54 AM, walt wrote:
>>
>> Maybe a year ago I started having problems building virtualbox on = my
>> older/smaller machine. =C2=A0There is one place which ran through = my puny
>> 1GB of ram and then went on to fill up another 2GB of swap before<= br> >> oomkill stepped in.
>>
>> That turned out to be a gcc bug, and a proper fix was added to gcc=
>> 4.7.0 but not back-ported to 4.5.3, which I'm still using.
>>
>> Since then I scavenged half of that 1GB of RAM for my wife's m= achine,
>> so it should be fun to try to build virtualbox with the other half= :)
>
>
> Very cool :) =C2=A0I just built virtualbox with gcc-4.7.0 on my old ma= chine
> with 0.5 GB of ram and had no problems whatever. =C2=A0I also pulled f= rom
> Linus.git and compiled his latest kernel with gcc-4.7.0, no problems.<= br> >
> So far, so good.
>
>
>

Has anyone tried compiling chromium 20 (as of yesterday) and libreoffice= 3.5.4.2 using gcc 4.7.0? I am unable to do so. Using unstable Amd64.

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Nilesh Govindrajan
http://nileshgr.com

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