Large programs core dumping upon execution

[Joe E. Powell]

Has anyone else ever noticed that very large (over 300K) files
sometimes tend to core dump when they are invoked?  They usually
work fine, but every now and again, the program will just refuse
to start up.  Is it just me or have other people had this happen?

I've noticed this occasionally on nethack and moria, but more
often with gcc (esp gcc 1.35).

I'm running 3.51a, with a 40 MB drive and 2.5 MB of RAM.

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Joe E. Powell
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