Re: [9fans] quantity vs. quality

[Paul Lalonde <plalonde@telus.net>]

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Isn't the traditional solution to pre-allocate an emergency pad, and  
when malloc fails the emergency "I need more memory" handler gets to  
use that pad, and then propagates the condition upwards until some  
caller can handle the case?

Or should I run out and file a patent?

Paul

On 9-Jun-06, at 4:38 PM, David Leimbach wrote:

> 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?

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