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On 6/9/06, Ronald G Minnich <rminnich@lanl.gov> wrote:
> Latchesar Ionkov wrote:
> > Another example is using emalloc in libraries. I agree that it is  much
> > simpler to just give up when there is not enough memory (which  is also
> > not very likely case), but is that how the code is supposed  to be
> > written if you are not doing research?
>
> yes, that is a problem with a lot of code. "Just bail on first error" --
> we've had to stop using emalloc here because that is very unrealistic
> for production support.
>
> ron
>

Well I wonder what people typically do when they can't malloc anymore
memory but need more... A reasonable thing to do is to die I'd think.

In fact if you use Perl "die" is even a part of the lang.

my $a = 5 or die;
print "hello, world\n" or die;

^^ Valid, "draconian" perl?