In article <1992Feb3.225424.20176@athena.mit.edu> hlu@eecs.wsu.edu writes:
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>Hi,
>
>I am trying to compile GNU's binary utilities 1.9. Everything works
>fine, except ld, which reports "virtual memory exhausted". The one I

You've been bitten by linux's malloc(0) == NULL "feature".
You'll have to change the xmalloc() function to do a check for
a 0 byte request.

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Derek Lieber
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