Re: MSI: indentation and style cleanup

[Rob Shearman]

Mike Hearn wrote:
> OOM safety is a bit complicated, you have to properly unwind the stack and
> restore state as you go - for instance the last patch I submitted fixed a
> bug where OOM would not cause the loop to terminate, but I forgot to free
> some data as we returned up the stack.
>
> Given that it can be quite complex and introduce new bugs, and given that
> it's really quite a useless feature IMHO as modern Linux boxes will hang
> themselves in swap hell before returning NULL from malloc I don't think
> this should be a janitorial project.

You can get NULL with a corrupted heap too.

Rob