[4493] in Athena Bugs
emacs abort()s on out of memory
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Carr)
Sun Mar 11 17:21:57 1990
To: bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Date: Sun, 11 Mar 90 17:21:43 EST
From: John Carr <jfc@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
Emacs will call abort() if it runs out of memory trying to recover from an
out of memory error. This is bad -- it will leave a core dump of 6 or 16
megabytes (depending on data limit). This core dump is not useful, since it
does not show a bug in programming. It should just call exit().
I got a 17 megabyte core dump from emacs last night: it called abort because
it ran out of memory trying to report that it ran out of memory trying to
realloc() the minibuffer when I changed the window size.
