Re: [MacPerl] Out of Memory Crash

[Matthias Ulrich Neeracher <neeri@iis.ee.ethz.ch>]

mark@cheers.jsc.nasa.gov (Mark Manning/Muniz Eng.) writes:
>I ran into an interesting problem this past weekend.  I
>wrote a small program and, in the course of things, used
>the wrong variable in one place.  This had an interesting
>side effect.  I got the following:
>
>Out of memory!
>Out of memory!
>Out of memory!
>
>And then the system crashed.

Yes. The handling of out of memory errors in MacPerl is tricky (there is no
difference between the application and the runtime) and MacPerl doesn't
currently quite manage to quit while it's still ahead.

Matthias

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