# Re: UMAX backend and compiler issues under Linux

Oliver Rauch (oliver.rauch@Wolfsburg.DE)
Thu, 10 Sep 1998 23:41:06 +0200

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Ian R. Justman wrote:

> Hello, all.
>
> When I do a build of the backends under Linux, I have to leave the UMAX
> backend out because for some weird reason, it starts to eat a very large
> chunk of memory. So large, it even ran me out of my fifty megabytes's
> worth of swap space. Adding more swap space does NOT help either.
>
> Yet when I compile the backends under FreeBSD, that problem does not
> manifest itself.
>
> I most recently did this with gcc 2.7.2.3 under Slackware 3.4 on one
> machine, and PGCC (based on EGCS 1.0.3) on another Slackware 3.4 system,
> same results.
>
> The FreeBSD system in question is 2.2.7 RELEASE, under which I do most of
> my heavy-duty debugging runs; Linux puts too much useless crap in my
> debugging logs, especially the recent work I'd done in locating my
> end-of-scan problem.
>

Hi Ian,

That is a problem of the gcc. If you turn off optimization like described in
the PROBELMS-file, you are able to compile the umax-backend without any
errors!

Bye
Oliver

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