Re: Setting memory allocators for library functions.

[Rik van Riel]

On Tue, 27 Feb 2001, Daniel C. Sobral wrote:
> Matt Dillon wrote:
> > :Matt Dillon wrote:
> > :>
> > :..
> > :>     the system runs out of memory, even *with* overcommit protection.
> > :>     In fact, all sorts of side effects occur even when the system
> > :...
> > :
> > :That's an assumption.
> >
> >     Ha.  Right.  Go through any piece of significant code and just see how
> >     much goes flying out the window because the code wants to simply assume
> >     things work.  Then try coding conditionals all the way through to fix
> >     it... and don't forget you need to propogate the error condition back
> >     up the procedure chain too so the original caller knows why it failed.
>
> <sarcasm>Perhaps you should re-acquaint yourself with exception
> handlers,

And just where are you going to grow the cache when the
exception handler runs off the edge of the current stack
page ?

Rik
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