From: Han-Wen Nienhuys <hanwen@cs.uu.nl>
Cc: Marius Vollmer <mvo@zagadka.ping.de>, guile-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: port initialization?
Date: Fri, 9 Aug 2002 10:06:55 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <15699.30751.756887.254661@blauw.xs4all.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0208081820210Z.05101@locke.free-expression.org>
owinebar@free-expression.org writes:
> > > although I can't really imagine how (there is little code that can
> > > run, if you can't alloc a string or a cell, right?)
> >
> > Yep. I don't think it is worth worrying about his too much.
>
> If you're running out of memory, you might be in a deeply
> recursed procedure that hasn't set any global variables,
> so when it aborts, many megabytes become garbage. It's
> not that unusual.
> Or is that not included in what you're talking about?
It is note that -for instance- on linux you usually can't detect
this condition: malloc always returns non-null but when there is no VM
to satisfy the request, the program is killed.
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Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-08-04 14:42 port initialization? Han-Wen
2002-08-08 17:33 ` Marius Vollmer
2002-08-08 19:35 ` Han-Wen Nienhuys
2002-08-08 20:31 ` Marius Vollmer
2002-08-08 20:54 ` Han-Wen Nienhuys
2002-08-08 21:14 ` Marius Vollmer
2002-08-08 23:17 ` Han-Wen Nienhuys
2002-08-10 13:30 ` Marius Vollmer
2002-08-16 22:06 ` Han-Wen Nienhuys
2002-08-17 0:21 ` Marius Vollmer
2002-08-08 23:20 ` Lynn Winebarger
2002-08-09 8:06 ` Han-Wen Nienhuys [this message]
2002-08-10 13:33 ` Marius Vollmer
2002-08-10 14:12 ` Lynn Winebarger
2002-08-11 15:57 ` Marius Vollmer
2002-08-08 19:37 ` Han-Wen Nienhuys
2002-08-08 20:32 ` Marius Vollmer
2002-08-08 23:07 ` Han-Wen Nienhuys
2002-08-10 13:09 ` Marius Vollmer
2002-08-16 22:06 ` Han-Wen Nienhuys
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