From: abarak AT iil DOT intel DOT com (Amit Barak)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: free() question
Date: 19 Jan 1997 20:23:07 GMT
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John M. Aldrich (fighteer AT cs DOT com) wrote:
: Joseph Donahue wrote:
: > 
: > I must agree with you (Joe) about good habits.  But did you intend to
: > give the impression the program should terminate?
: > 
: > If malloc() fails on a modern multitasking operating system, there is
                           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
: > still the chance that giving the user the oportunity to close some files
: > or stop some other non-essential programs will free enough memory for
: > the program to continue without reloading/reinitializing.
: 
: IMHO there is no way to count on this being the case in any system. 
: DOS, for example.  But 99% of the time, if malloc() fails, your program
  ^^^
what does DOS have to do with modern multitasking operating systems ??

sorry, couldn't resist 8^)
: cannot effectively continue and will have to be terminated.  Of course,
: depending on how interactive/user friendly the program is, it can get
: more or less detailed in its error messages.  :)
: 
: > Ah...while I'm here...could someone please tell me what djgpp is?  I
: > assume this is some C/C++ compiler?
: 
: Umm.. yeah.  :)  In fact, DJGPP is a complete 32-bit protected mode port
: of GNU C/C++/Pascal and assorted utilities to MS-DOS.  It is perhaps the
: single best MS-DOS compiler in existence, producing code that is faster,
: cleaner, and smaller than Borland's 32-bit compiler.  For example, id
: Software's hit game Quake was written and compiled using DJGPP!
: 
: For more info, visit http://www.delorie.com/djgpp/, and browse around.
: 
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