Re: PHP (anti) crash policy?

From:	Olaf van der Spek	Date:	Fri, 01 Oct 2004 14:15:41 +0000
Subject:	Re: PHP (anti) crash policy?
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Manuel Lemos wrote:

Hello, On 10/01/2004 10:32 AM, Olaf Van Der Spek wrote:
That is not a crash. Your script making a PHP function request 600MB of memory. Since it exceeds the configured memory limit, there is no way to recover from memory exhaustion and the script just exits cleanly. It
BTW, I don't agree. It's easily possible to recover from this error. Just return NULL and the gzinflate function will return false.
If you think that is a good idea, why don't you just write a patch and discuss about it in php-dev mailing list?

Because (some of) the PHP developers don't consider this a bug. I doubt the patch would be accepted.