Re: port initialization?

[Marius Vollmer]

Lynn Winebarger <address@hidden> writes:

>   If you're running out of memory, you might be in a deeply
> recursed procedure that hasn't set any global variables,
> so when it aborts, many megabytes become garbage.  It's
> not that unusual.

Yes, but for throwing the error, we will also need some fresh storage,
I think.  We could arrange things so that aborting will always work,
but I'm afraid that would be quite tricky, and for little gain on a
Unix-like OS.  Might be different for embedded systems.

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