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I have panels with over 800 elements on them, and an individual board
with 412.  There are no hard-coded limits in PCB that would affect the
number of elements.

When you build pcb, there's a pcbtest.sh script in src/ that accepts a
-gdb option, which runs pcb in a debugger.  Once it crashes, type
"where" to find out *where* it crashed.

You can run "gnetlist -g pcbfwd" on your schematics to make the script
file that pcb is running; at least if you want someone else to look at
the problem it's fewer files you need to share (you'd still need to
share the pcb and any custom footprints it might need to load)

Also, make sure you're testing the latest git version of pcb incase
it's something that's already been fixed ;-)