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

[Wolfgang Bangerth]

> 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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