On Wed, May 02, 2007 at 05:25:39PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > Magnus Hagander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Given this, perhaps the proper approach should instead be to just check > > the return value, and go from there? Should be a simple enough patch, > > something like the attached. > > > Tom, can you comment? > > Testing against INT_MAX seems like a type pun, or something. Maybe use > MaxAllocSize instead?
The windows API documentation specifically says: On an error, each function sets errno and returns INT_MAX. So actually an equality test against INT_MAX would be correct. But making that clear in the comment would probably not be a bad idea :-) //Magnus ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: explain analyze is your friend