g++ (GCC) 4.4.6 20130305 (Red Hat 4.4.6-4). Steps to reproduce 1. create a small hello world program with iostream,stdio.h and stdlib.h using namespace std; 2. create a big file (say 900M) named "new" in a location which is a part of your include path. 3. Compile the hello world cpp and it should fail with the above error. This seems to be because of the size and name of the file created in step 2 above. g++ -g -pthread -D_THREAD_SAFE -D_REENTRANT -I/opt/performance -o helloworld.o -c helloworld.cpp file "new" was created at location /opt/performance/
(In reply to Amit Chitnis from comment #0) > 2. create a big file (say 900M) named "new" in a location which is a part of > your include path. This is your problem, <new> is a standard header so you must not replace it.
Closing then.