From: Stephen Leake <stephen_leake@acm.org>
To: comp.lang.ada@ada-france.org
Subject: Re: Is the Ada run-time required to detect out-of-memory conditions?
Date: 20 May 2004 20:47:17 -0400
Date: 2004-05-20T20:47:17-04:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <mailman.2.1085100450.401.comp.lang.ada@ada-france.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <878yfmiuak.fsf@insalien.org>
Ludovic Brenta <ludovic.brenta@insalien.org> writes:
> 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.
As the GNAT manual says, to get Storage_Error here, you have to
compile with -fstack-check. This is an expensive check, so it is off
by default.
--
-- Stephe
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-05-21 0:47 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 [this message]
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
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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