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by lelanthran 171 days ago
> As someone who runs into this problem [OOM]a lot, this is pretty cool! Does anyone know how they can recover from this in SQLite?

How are you running into it?

If you're writing in C, idiomatic code works (check the return values of functions that allocate!)

If you're in C++, Rust or similar, you have to write pretty non-idiomatically to recover from an allocation failure.
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zabzonk 171 days ago
how exactly do you think C and C++ differ here?
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lelanthran 171 days ago
> how exactly do you think C and C++ differ here?

`new` throws, `malloc` returns. That's a pretty big difference!

Idiomatic C++ code never puts a `try` around `new`, while idiomatic C code always checks the return from an allocation.

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zabzonk 171 days ago
Well: https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/memory/new/nothrow.html

I thought you were talking about the use of malloc in both languages - you never mentioned new in your first post. and i think we have different views on what is "idiomatic" in the languages.

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lelanthran 170 days ago
> I thought you were talking about the use of malloc in both languages - you never mentioned new in your first post. and i think we have different views on what is "idiomatic" in the languages.

That's fair, but malloc is certainly non-idiomatic, isn't it?

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