Re: Re: PHP (anti) crash policy?

David Bevan wrote:

On October 3, 2004 12:46, Olaf van der Spek wrote:

Manuel Lemos wrote:

Hello, On 10/03/2004 12:27 PM, Olaf Van Der Spek wrote:

I think that making all failed memory allocations recoverable is not viable because more PHP C code that makes memory allocations assumes it only returns if it succeeds. Trying to change that everywhere memory is allocated is and monster job that I doubt that any PHP core developer will agree on doing.

You could just create a new function for that: alloc_no_exception There's no need to change every call, you'd only need to change the calls that can take a NULL result.

I find it hard to justify such function

Why? I think a large number of data handling functions would benefit from such a function. And it'd make PHP more robust.

Olaf, PHP is an open source language is it not? Since you're so smart why don't YOU write the code?

Because I don't have time to fix every bug (I encounter) in every open source app I use. And I don't know the internals of the PHP code to be sure my patch works and doesn't break anything else.