Hello, Thanks for your reply. I guess I don’t understand why this requires so much memory all at once. Is it not possible to write to the object file as the initializer is parsed? I feel like there is some complexity about the parsing process/requirements I’m not appreciating. An example or explanation would probably help me a lot. Thanks, Ryan > On Apr 11, 2020, at 4:22 PM, Jonathan Wakely <jwakely.gcc@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Sat, 11 Apr 2020 at 21:04, relliott--- via Gcc-help > <gcc-help@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> Hello, >> >> I’m seeing gcc memory usage exceed 15GB when compiling a source file generated from the command: >> >> % xxd -i file.txt >> >> where ‘file.txt’ is a 170MB file. >> >> Is there a way to avoid this high memory usage? Can anyone explain why it occurs? > > Because the compiler is parsing an array initializer with millions of elements.
