[Chicken-hackers] [PATCH] Fix #892 by causing panic instead of crash/segfault upon heap exhaustion

[Peter Bex]

Hi all,

After some digging, it looks like the code in C_rereclaim2 which simply
returns when the heap can't be resized is really really wrong.

I'm unsure what the "proper" fix is, but panicking seems like a good
thing to do in the face of unreclaimable memory!  See ticket #892 for
details.

Attached is a simple patch which inserts said panic(), and fixes a
minor typo in another error (it also adds the word "new" to distinguish
it from the other "out of memory" error on line 3328)

Cheers,
Peter
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0001-Panic-when-maximum-heap-size-exhausted-instead-of-cr.patch
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