Re: out of memory building oct file

[Dmitri A. Sergatskov]

Geraint Paul Bevan wrote:
...
> According to the bug criteria on the gcc-300 info page, under the
> heading "Have You Found a Bug?":
>
>    * If the compiler gets a fatal signal, for any input whatever, that
>      is a compiler bug.  Reliable compilers never crash.
>
> Of course, this may be a known bug or even one that has been fixed in
> 3.4, so I would check the bug database before reporting it.

All this assumed that computer performs "normally", which means it does
not run out of its resources.
I am pretty sure that gcc is not designed to fail gracefully in out-of-memory
conditions. So, one can report a bug, but the most likely response will be
to get more memory. See e.g. first hit on google "g++ memory usage":

http://lists.debian.org/debian-gcc/2004/09/msg00141.html

> - --
> Geraint Bevan

Sincerely,

Dmitri.
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