Alpha failure [was: Re: egcs test failures under glibc 2.0.98]

[Philip Blundell]

>I was trying to build glibc in CVS as of Oct 24 07:00am PDT on
>alpha. But egcs 1.1 used so much memory on one file. It ran out
>of memory. Do I need a new egcs to compile it on alpha. BTW, I
>am using the kernel header files from Linux 2.1.126.

I had the same problem (with nss/nsswitch.c).  The compiler used up over 100MB 
of virtual memory and eventually died with SIGSEGV.  I compiled that file by 
hand without -O and there was no problem.

p.