Date: Wed, 27 Nov 91 11:01:46 +0100
   From: blum@cip-s01.informatik.rwth-aachen.de (Robert Blum)

   Memory you have:	2000 KB

   Kernel/Buffers:		1000 KB
   bash:		approx.  300 KB
   cc1:            approx.  500 KB
   ===============================
   Free space:	approx.  200 KB

   And into these 200 KB gcc/bash have to squeeze their complete bss sections,
   and I forgot make in the list of memory hogs. Seems a little bit
   tight, huh? 

If this is the problem, one solution might be to modify the Makefile so
that instead of compiling and assembling a file at the same time, to
split it into two steps:

.c.s: ;		cc $(CFLAGS) -S $*.c 
.s.o: ; 	gas $(LDFLAGS) -o $*.o $*.s

That way, the compiler and the assembler won't need to be in memory at
the same time.  Someone with two meg of memory should try this, and see
if this will free enough memory so that a compile happens.

Another solution, of course, is to implement paging under Linux.  :-)

							- Ted