Should the Java compiler misbehave during your project,
here is what to try:

-- Karl L.

From dougo@ccs.neu.edu Wed Feb 12 16:12:56 1997
From: Doug Orleans <dougo@ccs.neu.edu>
To: Michael M Werner <werner@ccs.neu.edu>
cc: systems@ccs.neu.edu, lieber@ccs.neu.edu
Subject: Re: javac

Michael M. Werner writes:
 > Doug
 > 	When I compile with javac I get a memory fault.
 > My project is heavily recursive with lots of classes. Is
 > there some switch for getting more memory?
 > 		Mike W

Yes, there is; try

    java -ms8m sun.tools.javac.Main

This will give you 8 megs of stack.

To systems: Can you please add this option to the "javac" shell script
in /arch/unix/bin (on SunOS 4)?  The corresponding shell script on
Alphas, which comes from the JDK, has this option already (see 
/arch/com/packages/osfjdk-1.0.2/bin/alpha_osf32c/javac).

--Doug