Re: [Chicken-hackers] [PATCH] Raise error on construction of too large vectors/blobs

[Felix]

From: Christian Kellermann <address@hidden>
Subject: Re: [Chicken-hackers] [PATCH] Raise error on construction of too large 
vectors/blobs
Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2012 13:47:32 +0100

> * felix winkelmann <address@hidden> [120305 13:41]:
>> Hi!
>> 
>> I wonder if it is a good idea to test vector limits by allocating a
>> vector of #x100000000000000 elements.
> 
> The rationale behind this is:
> 
> It should not allocate anything but raise an error. If it does it
> will exhaust memory and that is also an error, resulting in a panic.
> 
> Does that make sense? I just want to make sure that the error is caught...
> Maybe there is a better way?

Ah, you check for an error. An oversight on my part. Well, you could try
negative lengths and so on.

Anyway, nevermind.


cheers,
felix