https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=79416
--- Comment #2 from Marina Minkin <mini at cs dot technion.ac.il> --- I was able to get a different error on gcc 4.4.7 $ gcc -v Using built-in specs. Target: x86_64-redhat-linux Configured with: ../configure --prefix=/usr --mandir=/usr/share/man --infodir=/usr/share/info --with-bugurl=http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla --enable-bootstrap --enable-shared --enable-threads=posix --enable-checking=release --with-system-zlib --enable-__cxa_atexit --disable-libunwind-exceptions --enable-gnu-unique-object --enable-languages=c,c++,objc,obj-c++,java,fortran,ada --enable-java-awt=gtk --disable-dssi --with-java-home=/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.5.0-gcj-1.5.0.0/jre --enable-libgcj-multifile --enable-java-maintainer-mode --with-ecj-jar=/usr/share/java/eclipse-ecj.jar --disable-libjava-multilib --with-ppl --with-cloog --with-tune=generic --with-arch_32=i686 --build=x86_64-redhat-linux Thread model: posix gcc version 4.4.7 20120313 (Red Hat 4.4.7-17) (GCC) $ cat prog.cpp template <int N> void nops() __attribute((always_inline)); template <int N> void more_nops() __attribute((always_inline)); template <int N> void more_nops2() __attribute((always_inline)); template <int N> inline void nops() { asm("nop"); nops<N - 1>(); } template<> inline void nops<0>() { }; template <int N> inline void more_nops() { nops<400>(); more_nops<N - 1>(); }; template<> inline void more_nops<0>() { }; template <int N> inline void more_nops2() { more_nops<400>(); more_nops2<N - 1>(); }; template<> inline void more_nops2<0>() { }; int main() { more_nops2<100>(); } $ g++ prog.cpp virtual memory exhausted: Cannot allocate memory
