Re: Problem compiling - rpcgen fails - 'Value too large'

[Andreas Jaeger]

Matthew Hambley <address@hidden> writes:

> In message <address@hidden> you wrote:
> 
>> Matthew Hambley <address@hidden> writes:
>> 
>> > I am attempting to compile glibc 2.2.3 and am having some difficulty. 
>> > I have suitably modern tools as specified in the INSTALL file and am
>> > compiling for Linux kernel 2.4.5 on an AMD K7.
>> > 
>> > Everything appears to go fine until a call is made to rpcgen to create
>> > various RPC related files.  This crashes with 'Value too large for
>> > specified data type' or something similar.
>> > 
>> > My understanding is that this error should only occur when accessing
>> > files of the order of 3GB which obviously I'm not.  I also have more
>> > than sufficient i-nodes on the disc so I can't imagine what is wrong.
>> > 
>> > Has anyone seen this before and if so can you suggest a solution.  If
>> > not I will happily provide a more detailed copy of 'make' output.
>> 
>> Which compiler and which compiler flags are you using?
> 
> I am using gcc 2.95.3 with the flags:
> 
> -s -O3 -fomit-frame-pointer -Wall -march=i686 -malign-functions=4
> -funroll-loops -fexpensive-optimizations -malign-double -fschedule-insns2
> -mwide-multiply
> 
> That is to say, that is what I have CFLAGS set to.  What the configuration
> script adds is another matter.  Thisset of flags is recomended as being
> optomised for the K7.  After all, there's no advantage to compiling your
> own stuff if you aren't going to optimise it.

I have no idea what might be the problem, it could well be a compiler
bug.

Andreas
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