From: Duncan Sands <baldrick@free.fr>
To: "Robert I. Eachus" <rieachus@comcast.net>, comp.lang.ada@ada-france.org
Subject: Re: Is the Ada run-time required to detect out-of-memory
Date: Tue, 25 May 2004 22:58:05 +0200
Date: 2004-05-25T22:58:05+02:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <mailman.0.1085518705.391.comp.lang.ada@ada-france.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <uOudnR-nzbFlMi7dRVn-vw@comcast.com>
> Did you refile the bug against the kernel? As I understand it now, the
> problem is not that the kernel raises SIGKILL if physical RAM is
> exhausted, but that malloc doesn't check that the allocation can succeed
> before making it.
I don't believe that malloc can check before making the allocation (on a system
that overcommits memory). Maybe it can check after making the allocation though.
Duncan.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-05-25 20:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-05-20 22:54 Is the Ada run-time required to detect out-of-memory conditions? Ludovic Brenta
2004-05-21 0:44 ` Georg Bauhaus
2004-05-21 0:47 ` Stephen Leake
2004-05-21 0:54 ` Georg Bauhaus
2004-05-21 1:00 ` Stephen Leake
2004-05-21 3:29 ` Robert I. Eachus
2004-05-21 8:04 ` Vinzent 'Gadget' Hoefler
2004-05-21 9:34 ` Martin Krischik
2004-05-21 11:13 ` Wojtek Narczynski
2004-05-21 12:55 ` Martin Krischik
2004-05-21 16:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
2004-05-21 17:13 ` Ludovic Brenta
2004-05-21 23:41 ` Wojtek Narczynski
2004-05-23 8:20 ` Martin Krischik
2004-05-21 19:58 ` Randy Brukardt
2004-05-21 16:56 ` Mark H Johnson
2004-05-21 17:19 ` Ludovic Brenta
2004-05-21 21:39 ` user
2004-05-21 22:04 ` Ludovic Brenta
2004-05-21 22:11 ` Ludovic Brenta
2004-05-22 11:40 ` Simon Wright
2004-05-25 20:43 ` Is the Ada run-time required to detect out-of-memory Robert I. Eachus
2004-05-25 20:58 ` Duncan Sands [this message]
2004-05-25 21:19 ` Ludovic Brenta
2004-05-25 21:31 ` Duncan Sands
2004-05-26 7:09 ` Martin Krischik
2004-05-26 7:38 ` Duncan Sands
2004-05-26 8:16 ` Martin Krischik
2004-05-26 8:34 ` Duncan Sands
2004-05-26 16:20 ` Martin Krischik
2004-05-22 13:40 ` Is the Ada run-time required to detect out-of-memory conditions? Duncan Sands
2004-05-22 14:09 ` Martin Krischik
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