haskell / haskell/cabal

Print a user-friendly error message when ghc is killed

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re: error-message type: enhancement
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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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