From: Marius Vollmer <mvo@zagadka.ping.de>
Cc: hanwen@cs.uu.nl, guile-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: port initialization?
Date: 11 Aug 2002 17:57:07 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87n0rte6cs.fsf@zagadka.ping.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <02081009123711.05101@locke.free-expression.org>
Lynn Winebarger <owinebar@free-expression.org> writes:
> > Yes, but for throwing the error, we will also need some fresh storage,
> > I think. We could arrange things so that aborting will always work,
> > but I'm afraid that would be quite tricky, and for little gain on a
> > Unix-like OS. Might be different for embedded systems.
>
> Will it take more than some small fixed amount?
I don't know. What about handling errors due to lack of memory
specially? We wouldn't invoke the usual error handler machinery but
just stop and inform the user that we have run out of memory and offer
to retry. Non-interactive programs might retry periodically. Just an
idea...
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-08-11 15:57 UTC|newest]
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
2002-08-10 13:33 ` Marius Vollmer
2002-08-10 14:12 ` Lynn Winebarger
2002-08-11 15:57 ` Marius Vollmer [this message]
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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