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On 18.11.14 04:06, Luke A. Guest wrote:
> Given the various input sizes of source you cannot statically define the
> runtime data.

Computer memory is statically sized, so in a sense a compiler
can never adapt to all input sizes, if that's good enough for
an excuse.  SNOBOL-4 (its incarnation CSNOBOL4) uses a switch
for increasing "dynamic storage" for program code and data.

Generalizing the reverse, a statically sized storage can prevent the
compiler from using memory swapped to disk, and then terminate
after a very slow run.  Which is a feature of gcc when it creates
larger data objects that it finds declared in the source text.