gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn ) (04/04/89)
In article <4801@ingr.com> crossgl@ingr.UUCP (Gordon Cross) writes: >Yes, it is. I've always wanted behavior similiar to an "out-of-memory" >signal that I could trap to let me know when there is no more memory. So >much so in fact, I wrote my own malloc that lets me set things up to have >a function called whenever an out-of-memory condition occurs. Regrettably >to the best of my knowlegde, the pANS does not address this issue... Sure it does. malloc() returns a null pointer when there is no more memory. You can build whatever additional mechanism you want on top of this; X3J11 was considerate enough not to decide for you what this should be. However, I don't think that has anything to do with Andrew's complaint.