Re: [boost] [serialization] building fails on OS X...

From: Matthias Troyer (troyer_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-09-10 16:55:26

On Sep 10, 2004, at 5:28 PM, Ronald Garcia wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have tried a few times recently to build Boost from CVS under OS X  
> on machine with 2 GB of memory.  Unfortunately building fails at the  
> following point:
>
> darwin-C++-action  
> bin/boost/libs/serialization/build/libboost_wserialization.a/darwin/ 
> release/xml_wgrammar.o
> virtual memory exhausted: Cannot allocate memory
>
> Has anyone else run into this problem?

Yes, I've seen this problem before and not only with the serialization  
library. Also other template-rich programs, e.g. using the BGL library  
need enormous amounts of memory when being compiled with optimization  
turned on and Apple's version of gcc-3.3 . My guess is that some of the  
Apple modifications lead to a huge memory bloat when optimizing some  
template code, as I've not seen this problem with the standard version  
of gcc-3.3.

Matthias