Infinite loop in compiling javax/swing/text/html/parser/HTML_401F.list

[Gerald Pfeifer]

On Sun, 28 Oct 2007, David Daney wrote:
>>  On i386-freebsd the number I identified earlier this year was 700MB, 
>> 512MB definitely _not_ being sufficient.  I'd be very interested in 
>> your measurements, perhaps we can reduce the limit somewhat!
> I regularly bootstrap c,c++,java on a mips-linux-gnu system with 256MB
> of RAM (and 2000MB swap).

Here we go!  This means your system actually features 2256MB of memory, 
not just 256MB. ;-)  Sorry for not making it more clear that I was really
referring to overall memory, not just main memory.  According to my tests 
our peak in virtual memory use is a bit below 700MB while building libgcj.

Gerald