Daniel Clark Thanks for your kind help, has served me well. 2012/1/16 Michał Masłowski <m...@mtjm.eu>
> >> Someone on Parabola Hackers (cc:ed, but please remove it when replying > to > >> avoid cross-post issues) mentioned that n64 would be good (at least to > have > >> available somewhere) so more virtual memory could be used - the use > case he > >> gave was that compiling and debugging some things requires more RAM then > >> can be achieved with current hardware + n32-limited virtual memory. > > n64 would be good for building WebKit with debug symbols on a machine > with more than 2 GiB of RAM, since ld needs more than 2 GiB of virtual > memory to link it unless using special options, documented as making the > link slower (it takes many minutes on a YeeLoong, since it uses much > swap). > > >> I think he actually had a chicken-and-egg scenario where he couldn't > >> compile 64-bit binutils because of memory limits. > > There are unrelated difficulties with cross building Parabola's > toolchain for other architectures/ABIs. > > > And recently, the firefox people had problems building firefox in a > 32-bit > > address space. > > > http://news.softpedia.com/news/Firefox-Source-Code-Is-So-Big-It-Hit-the-32-Bit-Virtual-Address-Space-Limit-240112.shtml > > They have a gigabyte more of virtual memory, although it's not > surprising that two different browser-like projects have such problems. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "loongson-dev" group. To post to this group, send email to loongson-dev@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to loongson-dev+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/loongson-dev?hl=en.
