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From: wojtek@power.com.pl (Wojtek Narczynski)
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Subject: Re: Is the Ada run-time required to detect out-of-memory conditions?
Date: 21 May 2004 04:13:43 -0700
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Hello,

> I have received a bug report [1] against GNAT 3.15p and reproduced the
> same behaviour with GCC 3.4.  I would like the advice of language
> lawyers on the issue.
> 
> [1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=250076
> 
> The program allocates memory in an infinite loop using "new" and the
> default storage pool, and of course exhausts all available storage.
> The issue is whether or not Storage_Error should be raised.  With
> GNAT, no exception is raised; instead the program receives SIGKILL
> (not even SIGSEGV) from Linux.

I noticed, that if the program allocates memory in 6Kb chunks or
larger, Storate_Error is raised. If the chunk size is 5Kb or less, the
program only prints "Killed". In between I have not tested.

Also, shouldn't cases like this one, as a rule, eventually become part
of ACATS?

Regards,
Wojtek