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From: Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: sqlite memory allocation and async signal safety
Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2022 17:06:28 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8735j7btyj.fsf@yahoo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 8735j7btyj.fsf.ref@yahoo.com

SQLite allocates various pieces of memory inside most of its functions.
This is done through the C library malloc, which immediately raises the
reentrancy question: shouldn't input be blocked around such functions?

Secondly, SQLite returns an error code upon running out of memory in an
irrecoverable fashion.  Shouldn't the code that currently signals an
ordinary error in such situations call `memory_full' instead?

Alternatively, we could make SQLite call xmalloc instead of C library
malloc, but I suppose the SQLite library is better at coping with
allocation failures of large sizes than xmalloc is, so that's probably
not the best solution.

Ideas?



       reply	other threads:[~2022-03-24  9:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <8735j7btyj.fsf.ref@yahoo.com>
2022-03-24  9:06 ` Po Lu [this message]
2022-03-24  9:53   ` sqlite memory allocation and async signal safety Eli Zaretskii
2022-03-24 10:21     ` Po Lu
2022-03-24 11:08       ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-03-24 11:51         ` Po Lu
2022-03-24 17:13       ` Stefan Monnier
2022-03-24 10:21     ` Andreas Schwab
2022-03-24 11:03       ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-03-24 10:22     ` Po Lu

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