Hi Martin and Paul, Thanks for your detailed explanation. I have no further concerns now.
Have a great day ahead! Best regards, Haoxin Paul Smith <psm...@gnu.org> 于2024年1月21日周日 23:24写道： > On Sun, 2024-01-21 at 12:00 +0800, Haoxin Tu wrote: > > May I know if you are planning to propose a fix for it? I checked the > > implementations of other `make` versions a bit further, and as far as > > I can tell, the issue exists from the older make-4.0.90 (2014-9-30) > > to the newest version of make (make-4.4.0.91). > > That's incorrect. As Martin explained, and I mentioned in my replies, > this issue was resolved back in 2017 and the fix is available starting > in GNU Make 4.3 and above. > > In that release, the OUT_OF_MEMORY() macro has been replaced with an > out_of_memory() function call, and neither that function nor any > function it calls will try to allocate memory and so it cannot have the > same behavior as the older code. > > In the current release, out-of-memory failures write a static buffer to > a file descriptor then exit, without returning or trying to allocate > more memory. > > Here is the relevant code from the current GNU Make 4.4.1 release: > > https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/make.git/tree/src/misc.c?h=4.4.1#n288 > https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/make.git/tree/src/output.c?h=4.4.1#n532 > https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/make.git/tree/src/misc.c?h=4.4.1#n426 > > > As an aside, all the versions of GNU Make that end in ".9x" such as the > ones you refer to above, 4.0.90 and 4.4.0.91, are beta or release > candidate releases. They are not fit for production use. Any release > which is made available on the https://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/ site is a > pre-release and should only be used for testing the release. > > You should only use releases with non-".9x" versions. You can find > these releases at the official site https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/ and they > are announced at https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/make/ > > -- > Paul D. Smith <psm...@gnu.org> Find some GNU make tips at: > https://www.gnu.org http://make.mad-scientist.net > "Please remain calm...I may be mad, but I am a professional." --Mad > Scientist >
