System hang when compiling QEMU on ARM host

[specx2]

Configuration:
Ubuntu 10.10
Linux 2.6.32.9
GCC 4.4.5
Host is based on ARM7 Processor (Qualcomm Snapdragon QSD8250)

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./configure
make

After the lines
...
i386-softmmu/translate.o

The system is completely freezes

I guess that GCC uses all the memory?
In what may be the reason for freezing?
Thank you!

[Peter Maydell (pmaydell)]

This is a gcc bug (fixed in newer versions of gcc), which causes it to use much more memory than it should do when compiling certain files. You can work around it by configuring with
 ./configure --extra-cflags=-fno-var-tracking
(this will result in worse debugging information, but if you want to debug qemu then you should probably not be building with optimisation anyway).

[specx2 (specx2)]

Using the
 ./configure --extra-cflags=-fno-var-tracking
gave the following result:
...
CC i386-softmmu/translate.o

cc1: out of memory allocating 14633640 bytes after a total of 60088320 bytes
make[1]: *** [translate.o] Error 1
make: *** [subdir-i386-softmmu] Error 2