------- Comment #8 from bangerth at dealii dot org 2006-04-18 03:50 -------
We've had numerous such reports in the past. The compiler can't do anything
to detect whether it has run out of stack space. What happens is that a
program allocates stack space, the operating systems gives it to the program
but doesn't actually provide physical space. When the program starts to write
into the area, the OS has to provide the memory, but when it's out of memory
it just says that the read or write was a segmentation fault and aborts the
program. The program can't know why this happened.
There is (unfortunately) nothing we can do about the situation.
W.
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bangerth at dealii dot org changed:
What |Removed |Added
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CC| |bangerth at dealii dot org
Status|UNCONFIRMED |RESOLVED
Resolution| |WONTFIX
http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=27052
