Re: c++/10874: ICE: unrecognized symbol type ""

The following reply was made to PR c++/10874; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Wolfgang Bangerth <[email protected]>
To: Paul Jones <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected], <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: c++/10874: ICE: unrecognized symbol type ""
Date: Tue, 20 May 2003 14:08:58 -0500 (CDT)

 > Thanks for your help.  For some reason my swap partition was not enabled, so 
 > it ran out of physical memory (96M).  I mounted swap partition and it works 
 > like a charm.  Is it possible to have an out of memory error message?
 
 That's pretty hard, since if the operating system overcommits memory 
 (which most do these days), then an application will not get an 
 out-of-memory status from malloc, but just a page fault or something when 
 it actually uses this memory. It's hard to detect what exactly caused 
 this, then.
 
 Thanks for the feedback
 W.
 
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