From bug-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu  Wed Nov  4 18:24:22 1998
Subject: Unidentified subject!
From: "John W. Eaton" <jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
To: michel at cepremap dot cnrs dot fr (Michel Juillard)
Cc: bug-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu
Date: Wed, 4 Nov 1998 16:59:11 -0600 (CST)

On  4-Nov-1998, Michel Juillard <michel at cepremap dot cnrs dot fr> wrote:

| To: bug-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu
| Cc: michel
| Subject: [50 character or so descriptive subject here (for reference)]
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| Bug report for Octave 2.1.9 configured for %CANONICAL_HOST_TYPE%
| 
| Description:
| -----------
| error in compiling parse.cc with egcs-1.1b (Linux on i686):
| 
| c++ -c  -I. -I../../octave-2.1.9/src -I.. -I../liboctave -I../src -I../libcruft/misc -I../../octave-2.1.9 -I../../octave-2.1.9/liboctave -I../../octave-2.1.9/src -I../../octave-2.1.9/libcruft/misc   -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -mieee-fp -fno-rtti -fno-exceptions -fno-implicit-templates -g -O2 -Wall parse.cc
| /usr/share/misc/bison.simple: In function `int yyparse()':
| /usr/share/misc/bison.simple:692: virtual memory exhausted
| 
| Note: the path to bison.simple is changed, because I tried to
| recreate parse.cc from parse.y, but the error is the same as with
| the original parse.cc

I can't reproduce this problem with the egcs 1.1a compiler on a Linux
i686 system.  By watching top, it appears that compiling does take
about 23MB, but  I don't run out of memory.

How much memory and swap space do you have available?

jwe