Re: [Texmacs-dev] CVS HEAD fails to compile

[Norbert Nemec]

Lionel Elie Mamane wrote:
> It also contains this very suspicious code in
> src/System/Misc/fast_alloc.cpp:
>
> void*
> safe_malloc (register size_t sz) {
>   void* ptr= malloc (sz);
>   if (ptr==NULL) {
>     cerr << "Fatal error: out of memory\n";
>     cout << 1/0 << "\n";
>     exit (1);
>   }
>   return ptr;
> }
>
> the "cout << " line looks suspicious, probably a local debugging code
> that was not meant to be committed? It was introduced with commit log:
>  Fix bug concerning surroundings of GUI elements
> and not e.g. "make sure we die with SIGFPE on out of memory".
>   


I found this crude hack somewhere else in the code as well. It is 
supposed to be a way to kill the program with a signal which can be 
caught by a debugger. The proper way to do this would be:
   abort();
instead of:
   cout << 1/0 << "\n";
   exit(1);

The standard-C "abort" command is the preferred way to kill the program 
with SIGABRT.