[PHP-DEV] (fwd) Re: [PHP4BETA] cvs: /php4/ext/standard array.c From: Andrei Zmievski (andrei <email protected>)
Date: 04/28/00

Is there a way to detect that emalloc() was unable to allocate specified
memory and recover gracefully? Right now it either dumps core in DEBUG
mode or exits in non-debug.

-Andrei

As I was going up the stair, I met a man who wasn't there.
He wasn't there again today. I wish, I wish he'd stay away.
                                                             -Hughes Mearns

attached mail follows:

| On Fri, 28 Apr 2000, Faisal Nasim wrote:
| > | On Fri, 28 Apr 2000, Faisal Nasim wrote:
| > | > By checking the result of emalloc().
| > |
| > | Heh, don't you think I would have done that if I could? The message
you
| > | see happens when emalloc() cannot allocate that much memory and it
just
| > | prints this messages and bails. That's it. It doesn't return.
| >
| > emalloc(), is that a library function?
| >
| > I don't see it in VC.
|
| It's a Zend function defined in zend_alloc.c.

Its there:

  fprintf(stderr,"FATAL: emalloc(): Unable to allocate %ld bytes\n",
(long) size);

better change it into a warning! Or perhaps some flag to it so that
it can generate the FATAL error when some initialization function
calls it.

Faisal 

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