Proposed solution for nsswitch.c compilation

[Ulrich Drepper]

hjl@lucon.org (H.J. Lu) writes:

> Before I forgot, to compile nsswitch.c on alpha, you needs LOTS of
> RAM and swap space. egcs 1.1.1 will use all of them. Here is free
> output when I compiled it on alpha:
> 
>              total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
> Mem:         62792      61208       1584      10560       1352      10008
> -/+ buffers/cache:      49848      12944
> Swap:       119704      37632      82072
> 
> I have seen 100MB swap space being used.

This is not unusual.  I have similar numbers for Intel.

I won't add this define in the Makefiles but I'll mention in the
announcement also that large amounts of virtual memory are needed for
highest optimizations.

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