Message174515
MemoryError can be raised under two different circumstances that should be handled differently. Either the program tries to allocate a rather large chunk of memory for e.g. a string with a couple of hundred KB and more. Or Python can't malloc() even small amounts of memory for its most basic operations like raising an exception object. That's why PyErr_NoMemory() exists and why it uses a pre-allocated MemoryError object.
When a program can't allocate memory for an image it usually has enough memory left to do proper error reporting and shut down. However when even "x = 2 * 200" fails with a memory error then proper shutdown will most likely fail and hang up the process, too.
Too bad that PyErr_NoMemory() is used for both scenarios and isn't aware how much memory was requested. |
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2012-11-02 14:04:22 | christian.heimes | set | recipients:
+ christian.heimes, gvanrossum, ctheune, benjamin.peterson, ebfe, hynek |
2012-11-02 14:04:22 | christian.heimes | set | messageid: <1351865062.46.0.186831753048.issue16381@psf.upfronthosting.co.za> |
2012-11-02 14:04:22 | christian.heimes | link | issue16381 messages |
2012-11-02 14:04:21 | christian.heimes | create | |
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