Unrecognized command line option '-mno-hw-div' when compiling AOCL kernel

Agreed. This is something that Intel/Altera should really look into, since it is such an obscure error that gives us absolutely no hint where to start looking at. Perhaps they've fixed on 17.0, but I have no access to this version. Problem solved (for now). Thank you everyone for the help!

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I can assure you this has nothing to do with the OS since I have been using CentOS v6.x since the beginning and I encountered this issue only once when I was using Quartus v15 on a cyclone board. The compiler also gives clear messages in the log when it crashes due to running out of memory; this case back then seemed like some issue with environmental variables to me.

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