Date: Sun, 12 Oct 1997 13:50:56 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: eyal DOT ben-david AT aks DOT com
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: memory usage during compilation
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On Thu, 9 Oct 1997 eyal DOT ben-david AT aks DOT com wrote:
> > Testing with a program that I used (see below) indicates that it takes
> > cc1 about 10MB to compile it.  But I never had any crashes or "out of
> > memory" messages.
> >
> How can you get the numbers ?

Add -dm to the gcc command-line switches, and it will report memory 
usage.  (It will also say "Bad command or filename", because it tries to 
run `ps', but you can disregard that.)