Date: Sun, 28 Sep 1997 18:41:50 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Andrew Crabtree <andrewc AT rosemail DOT rose DOT hp DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Allegro WIP (make.exe crash)
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On 24 Sep 1997, Andrew Crabtree wrote:

> Marc Lehman claims to have seen cc1 allocate 40MB on the stack when pgcc
> was set to -O6 on a particularly large file.  Yikes.

I think such cases need to be reported to FSF as bugs.  40MB would
break a lot of other platforms as well (e.g., I think Dec's OSF/1 Unix
has a default stack of 2MB).

Btw, I usually use the `stackrun' program written by Charles Sandmann,
to measure the stack usage in cases where the suspicion arises, and I
usually find it invaluable in such cases.