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Article #5868Re: ? (was: realloc)
From: Doug Gwyn
Date: Tue, 04 Apr 1989 08:13
Date: Tue, 04 Apr 1989 08:13
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In article <4801@ingr.com> crossgl@ingr.UUCP (Gordon Cross) writes: >Yes, it is. I've always wanted behavior similiar to an "out-of-memory" >signal that I could trap to let me know when there is no more memory. So >much so in fact, I wrote my own malloc that lets me set things up to have >a function called whenever an out-of-memory condition occurs. Regrettably >to the best of my knowlegde, the pANS does not address this issue... Sure it does. malloc() returns a null pointer when there is no more memory. You can build whatever additional mechanism you want on top of this; X3J11 was considerate enough not to decide for you what this should be. However, I don't think that has anything to do with Andrew's complaint.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!purdue!haven!adm!smoke!gwyn From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn ) Newsgroups: comp.std.c,comp.lang.c Subject: Re: ? (was: realloc) Message-ID: <9976@smoke.BRL.MIL> Date: 4 Apr 89 08:13:10 GMT References: <10170@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> <10032@ihlpb.ATT.COM> <934@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu> <9132@alice.UUCP> <4801@ingr.com> Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>) Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD. Lines: 13