> > if one wishes to be remotely standards-compliant, sending a note on > > allocation > > failure is not an option. k&r 2nd ed. p. 252. > > i was discussing something about it in practice, and not in a 1970's > environment, > where the approach didn't really work well even then. the `recovery' that > resulted was almost > invariably equivalent to sysfatal.
sysfatal is a reasonable recovery strategy for many programs. for many others, there may be something useful to do, like allocate a smaller or fewer buffers. - erik
