On Wednesday 25 February 2015 20:09:21 Oswald Buddenhagen wrote: > 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.
There's no feature on Linux to do that. Overcommit is always enabled. > also, linux isn't the only os around. True, but it's the vast majority of the embedded OSes out there and only growing. -- Thiago Macieira - thiago.macieira (AT) intel.com Software Architect - Intel Open Source Technology Center _______________________________________________ Development mailing list [email protected] http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/development
