[nos-bbs] Generic malloc failure -- why?

[Barry Siegfried]

["Maiko Langelaar (ve4klm)" <maiko at pcs.mb.ca> wrote]:

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> I've read somewhere that perhaps one should not exit immediately from
> a failed request for malloc() if the system is being tasked at the time.
> One could instead wait (in jnos case do a pwait) then try again several
> times to malloc for memory, then fail after several attempts, not just
> the first attempt.  I can play around with that on my development system,
> it sounds like an interesting idea ...

JNOS already has those mechanics but I'm sure you know that, Maiko.
See mallocw() and callocw() in ALLOC.C.

73, de Barry, K2MF >>
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