Re: [COMMIT] NEWGC: handle memory shortage

>>>>"AK" == Aidan Kehoe <kehoea(a)parhasard.net&gt; writes:

> With this patch, the allocator is informed about memory shortage and > then allocates only the needed pages and no larger blocks. This may > keep XEmacs alive until the garbage collector can free enough memory > and recovers from the memory exhaustion. If the recovery is not > pssible, XEmacs aborts rather than printing "memory full" in a loop.

> +/* malloc calls this if it finds we are near exhausting storage */ > +void > +malloc_warning (const char *str) > +{ > + if (ignore_malloc_warnings) > + return; > + > + /* Remove the malloc lock here, because warn_when_safe may allocate > + again. It is safe to remove the malloc lock here, because malloc > + is already finished (malloc_warning is called via > + after_morecore_hook -> check_memory_limits -> save_warn_fun -> > + malloc_warning). */ > + MALLOC_END ();