From: Christian Kellermann <ck...@pestilenz.org> Subject: Re: [Chicken-hackers] [PATCH] Raise error on construction of too large vectors/blobs Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2012 13:47:32 +0100
> * felix winkelmann <fe...@call-with-current-continuation.org> [120305 13:41]: >> Hi! >> >> I wonder if it is a good idea to test vector limits by allocating a >> vector of #x100000000000000 elements. > > The rationale behind this is: > > It should not allocate anything but raise an error. If it does it > will exhaust memory and that is also an error, resulting in a panic. > > Does that make sense? I just want to make sure that the error is caught... > Maybe there is a better way? Ah, you check for an error. An oversight on my part. Well, you could try negative lengths and so on. Anyway, nevermind. cheers, felix _______________________________________________ Chicken-hackers mailing list Chicken-hackers@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/chicken-hackers
