2 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 0feb6c94d1..8ed697ff9d 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ Sat Jul 15 01:09:22 2006  Yukihiro Matsumoto  <matz@ruby-lang.org>
 	  malloc/calloc, to detect memory allocation failure.  see
 	  <http://www.nongnu.org/failmalloc/>.
 
-	* gc.c (rb_memerror): should not raise nomem_error.
+	* gc.c (rb_memerror): should not raise empty nomem_error.
 
 Fri Jul 14 13:08:13 2006  Hidetoshi NAGAI  <nagai@ai.kyutech.ac.jp>
 
diff --git a/gc.c b/gc.c
index c73da2c278..04f28e634a 100644
--- a/gc.c
+++ b/gc.c
@@ -95,7 +95,7 @@ rb_memerror()
 {
     static int recurse = 0;
 
-    if (recurse > 0 && rb_safe_level() < 4) {
+    if (!nomem_error || (recurse > 0 && rb_safe_level() < 4)) {
 	fprintf(stderr, "[FATAL] failed to allocate memory\n");
 	exit(1);
     }