Hi Armin, On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 13:44 +0100, Armin Rigo wrote: > On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 07:54:52PM +0100, Niko Matsakis wrote: > > I cannot seem to generate code that catches OOM errors in RPython. > > A known issue: the flow space doesn't consider that almost any operation > could raise MemoryError, and thus the except clause is never seen by it. > The same issue applies to try:finally:. > > The workaround is to use a function call: > > def fn(): > try: > do_stuff() > except MemoryError: > return True > else: > return False > > def do_stuff(): > ...
the "range" and "lst.append" in Niko's example are not considered to be function calls? Is it (also) the explicit catching of MemoryError here that is important? holger _______________________________________________ [email protected] http://codespeak.net/mailman/listinfo/pypy-dev
