RE: Advice requested: how big can we be?

[Andrew Haley <aph at redhat dot com>]

Paul Koning writes:
 > 
 > Come on people, this is not reasonable.  I know there are ways of
 > doing software builds that don't require infinite memory.  For a
 > library build to take more memory than the entire M$ Office package
 > is not right.
 > 
 > I'm using a 3 year old laptop with an unusually large RAM, but even
 > so I run into this problem.  If it's really the intent that all GCC
 > contributors must have a brand new computer with at least 1 GB of
 > memory,

Of course that is not our intent.  If it were, I wouldn't be asking
this question.

 > you should say so on the "how to contribute" webpage -- and
 > plan to lose a lot of support.
 > 
 > This issue should go into the buglist as a high priority bug.

Please don't.  We're dealing with it.

Andrew.