Cory West on compiling banner:
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> Has anyone been able to compile banner ...
> I was just wondering is this was a compiler intensive program, a compiler
> bug, a system bug, ...

This is simply a moderately compiler intensive program. I got it compiled.
GCC used approximately 10 seconds of time (20 seconds of real time),
and it hogged up to 3.2 MB of memory.

The problem is that GCC builds a big syntax tree for the initial value of
that array, before beginning to output it to the .s file.

So either add some swap space (8MB RAM and 5 MB swap should be enough), or
get a better compiler :-)

There have already been such complaints in the gnu.gcc.help newsgroup. One
guy needed more that 90 MB of swap space...

Btw, banner is not 8 bit clean.


         Bruno Haible
         haible@ma2s2.mathematik.uni-karlsruhe.de