From: Mark Acosta (macosta++at++magic-earth.com)
Date: 02/07/2001 16:01:55
Yair,
Yeah, I can probably live with that.
Mark
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From: yair++at++polygon.engr.sgi.com [mailto:yair++at++polygon.engr.sgi.com]
Sent: Wednesday, February 07, 2001 5:37 PM
To: macosta++at++magic-earth.com
Cc: info-performer++at++sgi.com
Subject: Re: Performer out of memory behavior
Mark,
> You said that I could just return normally from the handler and the
> result would be a NULL pointer returned from pfMalloc. This is actually
what
> I'd like to do. I would like to give my application the chance to recover
> rather than just exit. For all other resource errors, I'd just let
Performer
> process them normally. It possible to do this?
Not without comparing the error string (and hoping that it won't change in
future Performer releases).
I would write a handler that never exits on FATAL errors. This way, you can
intercept out-of-memory errors. A FATAL error is serious enough that if you
don't exit, your program will crash anyway. Can you live with this ?
-yair
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