hard memory limits

[Fredrik Lundh]

Mike Meyer wrote:

> There is something very non-unixy going on here, though. Why is
> vm_malloc exiting with an error message, instead of returning a
> failure to the calling application? I've seen other applications
> include a FOSS malloc implementation to work around bugs in the
> system's malloc. Maybe Python should do that on the Mac?

from what I can tell (by reading the google hits), the malloc implementation
prints a message, but returns NULL as usual (you can find reports of this
message preceeding a MemoryError traceback).

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