? (was: realloc)

[Doug Gwyn]

In article <4801 at ingr.com> crossgl at ingr.UUCP (Gordon Cross) writes:
>Yes, it is.  I've always wanted behavior similiar to an "out-of-memory"
>signal that I could trap to let me know when there is no more memory.  So
>much so in fact, I wrote my own malloc that lets me set things up to have
>a function called whenever an out-of-memory condition occurs.  Regrettably
>to the best of my knowlegde, the pANS does not address this issue...

Sure it does.  malloc() returns a null pointer when there is no more
memory.  You can build whatever additional mechanism you want on top
of this; X3J11 was considerate enough not to decide for you what this
should be.

However, I don't think that has anything to do with Andrew's complaint.