25.02.2015, 22:09, "Oswald Buddenhagen" <[email protected]>: > 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.
When using such a large library as Qt is quite hard to get along with disabled overcommit on embedded device (because you need to keep your application's VmSize under than size of physical memory). -- Regards, Konstantin _______________________________________________ Development mailing list [email protected] http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/development
