Catching 'out of memory' using pcall()
- From: Dmitri Shubin <sbn@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: luajit@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2014 11:06:24 +0400
Hi list, Mike!
Is it possible to catch 'out of memory' condition using pcall() ?
The test I tried shows a bit contradictory results:
$ cat -n a.lua
1 local function foo()
2 local t = {}
3 local i = 0
4 while true do
5 t[i] = tostring(i)
6 i = i + 1
7 end
8 end
9
10 local r = { pcall(foo) }
11 print(r[1], r[2])
$ ./src/luajit -v
LuaJIT 2.0.3 -- Copyright (C) 2005-2014 Mike Pall. http://luajit.org/
$ ./src/luajit a.lua
PANIC: unprotected error in call to Lua API (not enough memory)
But if I change line 5 to
5 t[i] = "x" .. tostring(i)
I get
$ ./src/luajit a.lua
false not enough memory
I'm on Linux, x86_64
Thanks!
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