gnu make misbehaves once VSS hits 2GB?

[Dan Kegel]

I have an interesting problem which might or might not
be gnu make's fault.  When VSS for make hits 2GB,
make starts misbehaving.  (This is on a 32 bit
Linux system which supports 3GB user processes.
The kernel is a patched 2.6.13.  It's new, but seems
stable otherwise.)
The misbehavior looks like this: it starts spitting
out "make: alksdjfa;kepiuro;rzkorek: command not found".
e.g.

make: M-(M-/M-EM-^OM-0M-/M-EM-^OM-3M-/M-EM-^O: Command not found
make: M-HM-]M-BM-^OM-PM-]M-BM-^OM-SM-]M-BM-^O: Command not found
make: M-^H7M-_M-^OM-^P7M-_M-^OM-^S7M-_M-^O: Command not found
make: 1.0-20060219-piii-linux-opt/bin/storageserver/libserverlist-client.a:
Command not found

I think those are just random snippets of memory.

I'll try this again on different hardware and OS to verify;
it might well not be make's fault.

This is with both the three-year-old make 3.80 and the latest rc.
- Dan

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