Re: readlink, getcwd memory leaks

[Dirk Herrmann]

Marius Vollmer wrote:

>  Kevin Ryde <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > Marius Vollmer <address@hidden> writes:
> >
> >> (There still will be a memory leak when scm_mem2string throws,
> >> but that is very unlikely...)
> >
> > I was thinking about that after Dirk changed scm_gethostbyname.
> > Looks like a lot of potential places like that, and no fun to try
> > to tighten them up :-(.
>
>
>  Yes. Maybe we should just disallow out-of-memory throws. There is
>  no real point for them: Guile likely can't continue anyway.

Sounds good to me. Let's make it official policy and modify 
scm_memory_error to abort. (scm_gethostname could then be simplified 
again...)

Best regards,
Dirk