On Wed, 15 Dec 2010 13:04+0200, George Mamalakis wrote:
> I was testing a program that would exhaust all my memory (in C++),
> and when this would happen, it would call set_new_handler() along
> with one of my functions that would inform the user about the lack
> of memory and then it would exit the program. Instead, the program
> was force-killed by the kernel (signal 9) and I was informed that:
If all your process' memory is exhausted, then there is no memory left
for the runtime system for doing I/O and the other stuff you want.
Next, unless I'm on drugs, maybe you should call set_new_handler()
before you actually run out of memory. Just my $0.02.
Trond.
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