Re: exception when NEW fails

Henning Thielemann <iakd0@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

> I've learned from the a discussion years ago
> 
http://groups.google.de/groups?hl=de&lr=&ie=UTF-8&threadm=NAYERI.95Jun9115820%40bermuda.gte.com&rnum=3&prev=/groups%3Fq%3Dcallback%2Bexception%2Bgroup:comp.lang.modula3%26hl%3Dde%26lr%3D%26ie%3DUTF-8%26group%3Dcomp.lang.modula3%26selm%3DNAYERI.95Jun911582
>  that it is intended that the program is aborted unrecoverably if it
runs
> out of memory. This is not acceptable for GUI driven programs - the
> program cannot simply quit if the user enters a zero too much for a size
> value ... What is the current implementation in pm3 and cm3 ?

You will probably have found out by now, but the cm3 garbage collector
does

    IF (np = NIL) THEN
      RAISE RuntimeError.E (RuntimeError.T.OutOfMemory);
    END;

If you are able to do something meaningful with the exception depends
on many things outside the control of the core system.

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