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From:	"Salvador Eduardo Tropea (SET)" <salvador AT inti DOT edu DOT ar>
Organization:	INTI
To:	Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
Date:	Thu, 9 Oct 1997 14:47:38 +0000
MIME-Version:	1.0
Subject:	Re: Compiler crashes...
CC:	djgpp AT delorie DOT com

Eli wrote:
> On Thu, 9 Oct 1997, Salvador Eduardo Tropea (SET) wrote:
> 
> > And the error was ouf of virtual and not an stack fault, that's the most 
> > strange part.
> 
> Why is that strange?  Is there any reason to believe that cc1 allocates 
> all the space it needs to compile that code on its stack?  For all I 
> know, it can just as well call malloc.  Then it would say "out of virtual 
> memory".  No?
Seems that gcc isn't just calling malloc (or calloc) to create the array. Seems 
that a lot of tasks are involved in this simple thing so I can beleive that a 
256Kb couldn't be enough but not Mbs of virtual memory. 
If  was getting simple crashes I was tried enlarging the stack.

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