[M3devel] elminating pthread_attr_t from cloned headers

Tony Hosking hosking at cs.purdue.edu
Thu Feb 5 05:45:46 CET 2009


Yes, OOMEs were added to CM3, as I understand it for the CM Java VM.

On that count, does anyone know what happened to the CM Java VM?  Is  
it available anywhere?

On 5 Feb 2009, at 15:33, Mika Nystrom wrote:

> Jay writes:
> ...
>> I'll maybe review more code along these lines.
>> I gather the general gist of things in Modula-3 though
>> is that out of memory is fatal anyway. Raising an exception
>> vs. failing an assertion probably not significantly different
>> if the exception is not meant to be caught and isn't ever caught.
>> (Strange though then the gymnastics I pointed out elsewhere
>> converting one form of out of memory to another form..)
> ...
>
> Back in SRC days I remember there was a discussion at some length
> about what to do in case of running out of memory.  I think the
> project was abandoned as people realized it was quite a tricky
> problem...
>
> I don't believe PM3 has out of memory exceptions, nor did SRC
> M3...?  It's a wild guess but maybe this has something to do with
> the Critical Mass modifications for their JVM?
>
>     Mika




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