On Monday, 29 February 2016 at 23:41:51 UTC, Chris Wright wrote:
On Mon, 29 Feb 2016 21:55:49 +0000, Jirka wrote:
Yes, that I understand, but the "new" operator can lead to
other system calls (?), could they overwrite it?
Yes. Most obviously, the GC uses malloc, which will set errno
to ENOMEM on failure.
Ok, that would throw some OOM exception instead so I wouldn't
need to bother with it, is there something else in the GC that
would override it during class instance allocation? I am finding
it weird that ErrnoException doesn't let you specify the errno
value explicitly, you usually check it in your code anyway (e.g.
for EINTR and repeat the operation and not throw this error).
