Re: make: *** virtual memory exhausted. Stop.

[Paul D. Smith]

%% Ted Stern <address@hidden> writes:

  ts> Nevertheless, I wonder if there might be an alloca-type memory
  ts> leak going on here.

Nope.  Sorry, Ted, but you're alone in this :-).

All the other environments, including Windows IIRC, have a real alloca()
implementation.  This allocates memory on the stack, and so alloca(0) is
completely unnecessary: as soon as the function returns all info on the
stack is freed.  On these systems, in fact, alloca(0) is a no-op.


The OP's issue is clearly an instance of bug #1517:

  https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/index.php?func=detailitem&item_id=1517

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