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Re: obscure failures when RAM is low
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Daniel Pocock |
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Re: obscure failures when RAM is low |
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Sat, 30 May 2015 21:12:30 +0200 |
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On 30/05/15 20:31, Paul Eggert wrote:
> Daniel Pocock wrote:
>> Can this be handled any better by autotools or is it a g++ problem
>> exclusively?
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> No, it's a problem that in principle affects every program. If you
> don't have enough memory, your programs won't run.
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Well, some programs give a clear error when they need more RAM and the
user buys the RAM or changes their virtual machine settings
In this case, two things went wrong:
a) the g++ output was really obscure, no suggestion that it was a RAM
problem
b) the output of every second g++ invocation is redirected to /dev/null
by libtool, so the error doesn't always appear at all