>>>>> "DM" == der Mouse <mouse@Collatz.McRCIM.McGill.EDU> writes:
DM> I built a version of make with -g, and it coredumped too, though
DM> not at the same place.  Upon looking at the core with gdb, it
DM> appears that it simply ran out of memory.

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DM> This all adds up, to me, to make running out of VM at about 8
DM> megabytes.  This would not be interesting, except that 8 megabytes
DM> is exactly how much RAM there is in the machine.

Note that on my machine the default datasize limit is 8MB.  You might
want to check that first.

Also, I would think that make wouldn't be using that much memory.
Perhaps there is a leak somewhere.

	--jtc