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 1SacMu-0005ho-1N for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 02 Jun 2012 00:39:00 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4C96CE04EC; Sat, 2 Jun 2012 00:38:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EDDFDE04EC for ; Sat, 2 Jun 2012 00:37:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 81C5E1B4009 for ; Sat, 2 Jun 2012 00:37:08 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new using ClamAV at gentoo.org X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Spam-Score: -2.134 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.134 tagged_above=-999 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=-1.124, BAYES_00=-1.9, DKIM_ADSP_CUSTOM_MED=0.001, FREEMAIL_FROM=0.001, NML_ADSP_CUSTOM_MED=0.9, SPF_HELO_PASS=-0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001, T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD=-0.01] autolearn=no Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 3dUGynChJOWA for ; Sat, 2 Jun 2012 00:37:03 +0000 (UTC) Received: from plane.gmane.org (plane.gmane.org [80.91.229.3]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 1055A1B400D for ; Sat, 2 Jun 2012 00:37:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1SacKv-0005Bf-D6 for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Sat, 02 Jun 2012 02:36:57 +0200 Received: from adsl-69-234-201-112.dsl.irvnca.pacbell.net ([69.234.201.112]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 02 Jun 2012 02:36:57 +0200 Received: from w41ter by adsl-69-234-201-112.dsl.irvnca.pacbell.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 02 Jun 2012 02:36:57 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: walt Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: ~gcc-4.7.0 Date: Fri, 01 Jun 2012 17:36:41 -0700 Message-ID: References: <4FC3DA4E.9030009@xunil.at> 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 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: adsl-69-234-201-112.dsl.irvnca.pacbell.net User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:12.0) Gecko/20120420 Thunderbird/12.0 In-Reply-To: X-Archives-Salt: 04dcb871-8286-45eb-9b91-00721e4c364e X-Archives-Hash: 8db27a5d84bcdac7cbdbe079d9963e64 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.