Re: readlink, getcwd memory leaks

[Rob Browning]

Dirk Herrmann <address@hidden> writes:

> Marius Vollmer wrote:
>
>>  Kevin Ryde <address@hidden> writes:
>>
>>  Yes. Maybe we should just disallow out-of-memory throws. There is
>>  no real point for them: Guile likely can't continue anyway.
>
> Sounds good to me. Let's make it official policy and modify
> scm_memory_error to abort. (scm_gethostname could then be simplified
> again...)

That would preclude any kind of "release and retry" catch handler.  Do
we care about that?  (I'm not saying we do, just wondering.)

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Rob Browning
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