From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,MAILING_LIST_MULTI autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,ab4f67f984ef04f9 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public Path: controlnews3.google.com!news1.google.com!news.glorb.com!fr.ip.ndsoftware.net!proxad.net!usenet-fr.net!enst.fr!melchior!cuivre.fr.eu.org!melchior.frmug.org!not-for-mail From: Stephen Leake Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Is the Ada run-time required to detect out-of-memory conditions? Date: 20 May 2004 20:47:17 -0400 Organization: Cuivre, Argent, Or Message-ID: References: <878yfmiuak.fsf@insalien.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lovelace.ada-france.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: melchior.cuivre.fr.eu.org 1085100451 74808 212.85.156.195 (21 May 2004 00:47:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@melchior.cuivre.fr.eu.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 21 May 2004 00:47:31 +0000 (UTC) To: comp.lang.ada@ada-france.org Return-Path: In-Reply-To: <878yfmiuak.fsf@insalien.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3 X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new-20030616-p7 (Debian) at ada-france.org X-BeenThere: comp.lang.ada@ada-france.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.4 Precedence: list List-Id: "Gateway to the comp.lang.ada Usenet newsgroup" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Xref: controlnews3.google.com comp.lang.ada:719 Date: 2004-05-20T20:47:17-04:00 Ludovic Brenta 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