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Re: DJGPP2.952 internal compiler error
- To: etienne_jl at email dot com
- Subject: Re: DJGPP2.952 internal compiler error
- From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz at delorie dot com>
- Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2000 08:31:44 -0500 (EST)
- CC: andris at stargate dot astr dot lu dot lv, martin at loewis dot home dot cs dot tu-berlin dot de, gcc-bugs at gcc dot gnu dot org
- References: <20000307075454.11454.qmail@web1607.mail.yahoo.com>
- Reply-to: Eli Zaretskii <eliz at is dot elta dot co dot il>
> I apologize for all this: the problem is that I used GCC with low remaining
> physical memory. I tried several times yesterday changing the size of the RAM
> disk: sometimes I got the message "virtual memory exhausted", sometimes the
> DPMI crashed and the compiler returned an "internal compiler error" but with
> enough physical memory... all worked fine.
A compiler shouldn't crash when it runs out of memory. It should
certainly not crash if it runs out of physical memory, because DPMI
provides virtual memory.
In other words, the above sounds like a bug, either in GCC or in
QDPMI. What version of QDPMI are you using?