"Walter Bright" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >I asked this over on stackoverflow.com to see what people using other >languages have to say, as well as the D community. The reason I ask is to >see if memory allocation can be allowed in functions marked "nothrow". > > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/333736/is-out-of-memory-a-recoverable-error
I haven't looked at any of the other responses yet, but I'd have to say "sometimes". Clearly, getting an out of memory when trying to instantiate a trivial class is nonrecoverable (unless it's happening within a section of memory-intensive code that's allowed to fail, and the rest of the program does very little allocation), but getting an out of memory when trying to allocate a 1GB buffer for video processing is certainly recoverable.
