Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 06/10] qemu-ga: Add Windows VSS provider to quiesce applications on fsfreeze

[Tomoki Sekiyama]

On 6/28/13 6:40 , "Paolo Bonzini" <address@hidden> wrote:

>Il 28/06/2013 12:40, Laszlo Ersek ha scritto:
>>> > Also, this is not running in the context of qemu-ga, so I think it is
>>> > better to be more conservative and trap memory allocation failure.
>> In that case other "new" calls must assume the nothrow form too, plus
>> other allocation functions should be checked as well (eg.
>> SysAllocStringLen(), although its only use might be in the function that
>> Tomoki plans to remove anyway).
>
>Agreed (nothrow or try...catch, depending on what's better for the C++
>runtime;

I tried something like 'main(){ for(;;) new int[999]; }' and it caused:

Terminate called after throwing an instance of 'std::bad_alloc'
  what():  std::bad_alloc

abnormal program termination


I should catch and handle this.

> by the way, Tomoki-san, I suspect this will require libstdc++
>when compiled with GCC---can you confirm?).

Yes, we need "libstdc++-6.dll" from MinGW to run qemu-ga.exe.


>Thanks,
>
>Paolo

Thanks,
Tomoki Sekiyama