> I have 48MB of RAM so I doubt that it is running out of main memory, and the
> free space counts for / and /usr are 10MB and 282MB, although I have /tmp set
> up as a symbolic link to /usr/tmp, so I would expect that there is sufficient
> disk space too.

  How about /var/tmp ?

I think that's where gcc puts its temp files.

 Aso have you unlimited your datasize?  (I just have unlimit in my 
.tcshrc, I think unlimit works for bash too)

Ale.