[Development] QtCore missing check for memory allocation
Oswald Buddenhagen
oswald.buddenhagen at theqtcompany.com
Wed Feb 25 20:09:21 CET 2015
On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 08:38:21AM -0800, Thiago Macieira wrote:
> 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.
>
exactly because of this, in the embedded world it is common to disable
overcommit.
also, linux isn't the only os around.
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