Print a user-friendly error message when ghc is killed
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re: error-message
type: enhancement
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Description
It seems quite common that when GHC stops with SIGKILL (exit code -9), it's because the process was killed by an OOM killer. It would be nice if Cabal could print a helpful message describing that GHC was killed by a signal, and that it's likely to be because of a lack of memory.
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