Re: port initialization?

[Han-Wen Nienhuys]

address@hidden writes:
> > > although I can't really imagine how (there is little code that can
> > > run, if you can't alloc a string or a cell, right?)
> > 
> > Yep.  I don't think it is worth worrying about his too much.
> 
>   If you're running out of memory, you might be in a deeply
> recursed procedure that hasn't set any global variables,
> so when it aborts, many megabytes become garbage.  It's
> not that unusual.

>      Or is that not included in what you're talking about?

It is note that -for instance- on linux you usually can't detect
this condition: malloc always returns non-null but when there is no VM
to satisfy the request, the program is killed.

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