Re: Out of memory conditions and g_malloc

["Andrew W. Nosenko" <awn bcs zp ua>]

Owen Taylor wrote:
: On Wed, 2003-09-24 at 12:36, Philippe Laporte wrote:
: > "gpointer g_malloc( gulong size );
: > 
: > This is a replacement for malloc(). You do not need to check the return 
: > value as it is done for you in this function. If the memory allocation 
: > fails for whatever reasons, your applications will be terminated.
: > "
: > 
: > Is there a way to specify a handler for when memory allocation fails, so 
: > that we may have the opportunity to get something more graceful than a 
: > terminated application?
: 
: g_mem_set_vtable():
: 
: http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/2.0/glib/glib-Memory-Allocation.html#g-mem-set-vtable
: 
: allows you to replace the backend function that g_malloc() uses; with

Yet another way -- use g_try_malloc() and handle possible returned NULL
by self.

From Glib Reference Manual:

    g_try_malloc ()

    Attempts to allocate n_bytes, and returns NULL on failure. Contrast
    with g_malloc(), which aborts the program on failure.

-- 
Andrew W. Nosenko    (awn bcs zp ua)