On Wed, May 04, 2011 at 04:40:12PM -0600, Stephen Fisher wrote:
> On Wed, May 04, 2011 at 09:19:08PM +0000, darkjames@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>
> > Log:
> > XXX, should this code use g_try_malloc instead?
>
> is that inside GTK+ and GLib,
> they still use g_malloc, so we can't totally eliminate the
> possibilty of Wireshark being aborted when out of memory.
Hmm, we could set our own allocator (g_mem_set_vtable()),
and THROW OutOfMemoryError (instead of aborting)
for example vtab.malloc routine:
#v+
static gpointer
ws_malloc(gsize n_bytes)
{
gpointer ptr = malloc(n_bytes);
if (!ptr)
THROW(OutOfMemoryError);
return ptr;
}
#v-
not tested (I don't have OOM problems ;-))
