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From: nate@cs.montana.edu (Nate Williams)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs
Subject: Re: Out of memory?
Message-ID: <1993Mar25.162406.23895@coe.montana.edu>
Date: 25 Mar 93 16:24:06 GMT
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In article <2069@hcshh.hcs.de> hm@hcshh.hcs.de (Hellmuth Michaelis) writes:
>
>>I have a Gateway2000 EISA system with 16 megs ram, 32 megs swap, and
>>could not process the documentation for gnu emacs without an "Out of
>>Memory" error.  :-(
>
>This has nothing to to with swap-space, i had similar problems a while ago,
>and got some mail from James Clark:
>
>The problem is caused by a bug in g++ 1.39: operator delete (the C++
>equivalent of free()) doesn't work properly.
>
>Apply the following fix to g++ or upgrade to a newer version:

Fixed since patchkit-0.2.   You have to re-compile g++, and then
re-compile groff for this patch to work.


Nate
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