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Re: libjava test suite keeps getting stuck
- To: Joe Buck <jbuck at racerx dot synopsys dot com>
- Subject: Re: libjava test suite keeps getting stuck
- From: Jeff Sturm <jsturm at one-point dot com>
- Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 18:31:59 -0400 (EDT)
- cc: Zack Weinberg <zackw at stanford dot edu>, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org, java at gcc dot gnu dot org
On Fri, 20 Apr 2001, Joe Buck wrote:
>
> > It turns out there is very little C++ usage of new/delete in libjava.
> > It is trivial to replace these with malloc/free (patch below).
>
> This patch changes the behavior. new throws an exception on allocation
> failure; malloc returns a null pointer. Of course, you could fix your
> patch to throw the exception, or handle the error in some other way.
Right, thanks. (I don't know which is worse in this case: ignoring NULL
or not handling the exception. Either would probably be disastrous.)
I'm not completely convinced these shouldn't be using GC anyway.
Jeff