From: "Andrew Crabtree" <andrewc AT rosemail DOT rose DOT hp DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Allegro WIP (make.exe crash)
Date: 24 Sep 1997 16:05:23 GMT
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Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> wrote in article
<Pine DOT SUN DOT 3 DOT 91 DOT 970924113405 DOT 18049B-100000 AT is>...
> GCC is known to gobble ludicrous amounts of memory when optimizing
> some innocent-looking programs, especially if you say -O3 or -O2.
> good idea anyway.  IMHO, no file should require more than 16MBytes to
> compile, because some people don't bother to set their systems to more
> than that.
Marc Lehman claims to have seen cc1 allocate 40MB on the stack when pgcc
was set to -O6 on a 
particularly large file.  Yikes.