Re: High memory consumption compiling syntax.c

["Eli Zaretskii" <eliz at is dot elta dot co dot il>]

Oh, I forgot to tell something important, I think: the error message
reported by the user who had GCC on a Sparc bail out due to memory
exhaustion was this:

   gcc -c  -Demacs -DHAVE_CONFIG_H   -I. -I/home/reader/local/src/emacs-21.0.105/src           -I/usr/dt/include  -g -O2  syntax.c
   syntax.c: In function `scan_sexps_forward':
   syntax.c:2844: virtual memory exhausted

So this would mean the function scan_sexps_forward is the primary
suspect, right?  If it would help, I can post that function (it's
about 350 lines).

Sorry I failed to mention this in my original message.