Re: [BLACKBOX] can NEW return NIL?

From: Campbell, Robert (SELEX GALILEO, UK) <"Campbell,>
Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2008 16:42:00 -0000

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Andrew

Yes. It is more likely if the memory is fragmented.

Sometimes a 'Kernel.Collect' & retry is successful.

If there are gaps between your 900 Mbyte of old stuff that are too small
for your new stuff you are out of luck.

Robert

 

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>> Of Andrew Thomas
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>> Moi BlackBox community,
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>> Is it possible for the NEW function to return a NIL pointer.
>> I think this happened after allocating about 900MB of heap.
>> I have been able to allocate more heap, around 1.5GB, so the
>> problem is not that there is no more RAM. Maybe it is
>> something to do with the number of objects on the heap.
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>> Moi moi
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>> Andrew
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