as error message

[jskulpin at eng01.gdds.com (Jay Kulpinski)]

Roger Westerlund wrote:
> 
> I am trying to build gdb for powerpc target using the bit_gdb script under
> Linux and the build is aborted with the error message:
> 
> as: Can not allocate 491260 bytes after allocating 27433660 bytes
> 
> Can anyone tell me what that means?
> 
> Roger

Building the psim simulator in gdb takes a large amount of memory. 
Maybe 
you need to add more memory or swap space.  What does your memory usage
look like
during the compile ("cat /proc/meminfo")?  Building on a machine with 
24MB RAM slowed to less than a crawl during the psim phase.  I gave up
and
rebuilt it on a machine with 40 MB of real memory and 64M of swap.