Re: port initialization?

[Marius Vollmer]

Lynn Winebarger <address@hidden> writes:

> > Yes, but for throwing the error, we will also need some fresh storage,
> > I think.  We could arrange things so that aborting will always work,
> > but I'm afraid that would be quite tricky, and for little gain on a
> > Unix-like OS.  Might be different for embedded systems.
> 
>     Will it take more than some small fixed amount?

I don't know.  What about handling errors due to lack of memory
specially?  We wouldn't invoke the usual error handler machinery but
just stop and inform the user that we have run out of memory and offer
to retry.  Non-interactive programs might retry periodically.  Just an
idea...

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