High memory usage compiling large ‘xxd -i’ output

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Hello,

I’m seeing gcc memory usage exceed 15GB when compiling a source file generated from the command:

% xxd -i file.txt

where ‘file.txt’ is a 170MB file.

Is there a way to avoid this high memory usage?  Can anyone explain why it occurs?

Thanks,

Ryan Elliott