Analysis of Mauve failures - The final chapter

[Bryce McKinlay]

Mark Wielaard wrote:

>So it seems to be some sort of trouble when we are really, really out of
>memory and cannot even create an OutOfMemoryError.
>

prims.cc has a special static-allocated OutOfMemoryError which can be 
used in this situation, provided that throwing the exception itself 
doesn't need to allocate. However, we have to make sure that printing 
this exception doesn't itself require allocation (of a StringBuffer, for 
example). It probibly isn't possible to print a stack trace for this 
reason. The stack trace printer will just give up if another exception 
occurs while its trying to print the stack trace.

regards

Bryce.