On Monday, 6 October 2014 at 00:29:20 UTC, deadalnix wrote:
I know of several cases where this trick was used and it turned out horribly wrong. OOE is NOT recoverable. It may be in some cases, and you can use trick to make them recoverable in more cases, like the one mentioned, but ultimately, you have no guarantee, and worse, no way to know if you are in a recoverable situation or not.
You can throw a fatal error if you run out of memory twice. You have to write code that take low memory conditions into account throughout.
The problem is not that it is impossible to recover, the problem is that virtual memory have made programmers sloppy.
