Since the -M option has been co-opted for other purposes by the ghc Perl startup
script, and you can't pass explicit RTS options to the compiler itself (why isn't this
allowed?), it's impossible to compile modules which need more than 64MB of heap space.
(64mb is the default maximum for the new automated heap-growing.) For example, on my
Linux installation, ParseIFace.lhs needs something like 72MB to compile, so I had to
alter the startup script to pass an extra -M72mb when compiling that file with the
4.02 compiler itself. (BTW, can we expect the compiler to be a less memory-intensive
when it is released?)
--FC
