[Development] QtCore missing check for memory allocation
Thiago Macieira
thiago.macieira at intel.com
Wed Feb 25 17:38:21 CET 2015
On Wednesday 25 February 2015 17:20:54 Christian Kandeler wrote:
> Also, you are not even guaranteed to get a null pointer/bad_alloc due to
> things like Linux overcommitting.
Which is one of the reasons why we don't check for malloc failures. Modern
memory allocators with overcommitting and OOM killers mean that it's very hard
to track down actual OOM situations.
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Thiago Macieira - thiago.macieira (AT) intel.com
Software Architect - Intel Open Source Technology Center
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