-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 Andrew MacIntyre wrote: [snip] | In investigating a Python 2.6rc1 regression test failure on FreeBSD | 7.0/amd64, as far as I can tell, malloc() does not return NULL when | available memory (including swap) is exhausted - the process just gets | KILLed. [snip] | The Python regression test concerned does not fail on FreeBSD 7.0/i386, | however the C program below exhibits the unexpected behaviour on both | 7.0/amd64 and 7.0/i386. The C program below does behave as | expected on FreeBSD 6.3/i386; I cannot currently test its behaviour on | FreeBSD 6.3/amd64. [snip] | Is this the intended behaviour?
I can confirm something strange happening on i386/7.0-RELEASE: | ./malloc Killed | While on i386/8.0-CURRENT the behavior is as expected: | ./malloc_test chunks allocated: 2936 | [snip] | | Thanks, | Andrew. | - -- Pietro Cerutti [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Public Key: http://gahr.ch/pgp -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (FreeBSD) iEYEAREKAAYFAkjRNpQACgkQwMJqmJVx946uhQCfcWVVNnIXOIZ5PrmnenEjgLcT gQYAoNpwNxsW94EnOpMHQoit+OOgNd02 =mGSL -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

