PR# 13815 Runtime should distinguish "object too big" from "no more memory"

Problem Report Summary

Submitter: prestoat2000

Category: Runtime

Priority: Medium

Date: 2007/12/21

Class: Feature Request

Severity: Non-critical

Number: 13815

Release: 6.1.71477

Confidential: No

Status: Open

Responsible:

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Synopsis: Runtime should distinguish "object too big" from "no more memory"

Description

The run-time and the exception classes should distinguish between
"No more memory" (tried to allocate more memory but couldn't get any
more from OS) and "Object too big" (didn't even try to allocate requested
amount of memory because object size is too big to fit in space
allocated for it in the header).

Currently, if the requested object size is too big to fit in the header
the exception raised is "No more memory", which is very confusing if
you have a lot of memory on your system.

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