Subject: bug#9558: Minimal emacs build runs out of memory

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2011 06:34:51 -0400

> Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2011 11:18:32 +0100
> From: Reuben Thomas <[email-masked]>
> 
> #14 0x401220d0 in __libc_malloc (bytes=16384) at malloc.c:3622
> #15 0x0812082e in emacs_blocked_malloc (size=16384, ptr=0x812082e) at
> alloc.c:1269
> ...
> and the stack seems to have eaten much if not most of the memory, as
> it goes on the same way up to at least 320,000 (at which point I got
> bored of holding down RETURN to produce more backtrace).

Instead of endless RETURNs, try "where -30" to see the more
interesting and useful part of the backtrace.