On 22 August 2015 at 07:19, Thomas Dineen wrote: > Gentle People: > > When Building a rather large project gcc produces the following error: > "Out of memory for code representation:" See the details below. > > What is the best or simplest way to fix this? > > 1) Will using 64 bit via the -m64 flag fix this? That tells the compiler to produce 64-bit output, it doesn't change how much memory it has available, and is likely to use more memory to represent the larger pointer types. > or > 2) I am currently building the project with single gcc call. (The slow way) > Due to some legacy issues with GTK/Cairo and extern variables one big build > seems to work. Would it be better to compile each .C File to a .O file and > then > link (Faster way). Do you mean you've put all the code in a single file? If yes, then of course splitting it up into smaller files will use less memory. > 3) I am using an older gcc 3.4.6 on Solaris 10. Good grief. > Sun5# !ma > make TA_Benchs > Running Target: TA_Bench Sun > gcc -D_REENTRANT -ggdb -w -g -c IB_TWS_API.c Read_IB_Callbacks.c > gcc Main.c -ggdb -w IB_TWS_API.o Read_IB_Callbacks.o `pkg-config --cflags > --libs gtk+-2.0 ` -lcurl -lm -lsocket -lnsl -ggdb -w -o TA_Bench.sun > Assembler: Main.c > "/var/tmp//ccVeiKcL.s", line 15324105 : Out of memory for code > representation > make: *** [TA_Benchs] Error 1 This error isn't even coming from GCC, it's coming from the assembler, which is part of Solaris and not part of GCC. It's trying to assemble a file that is at least 15 million lines long. That's probably your problem. Try splitting Main.c into smaller files.
