The behavior of iterative methods of GMRES-type when applied to singular, p
ossibly inconsistent, linear systems is discussed and conditions under whic
h these methods converge to the least-squares solution of minimal norm are
presented. Error bounds for the computed iterates are shown. This paper com
plements previous work by Brown and Walker [P.N. Brown, H.F Walker, SIAM J.
Matrix Anal. Appl, 18 (1997) 37-51], (C) 2000 Elsevier Science Inc. All ri
ghts reserved.