libjava test suite keeps getting stuck

Fri Apr 20 15:27:00 GMT 2001

On 2001年4月20日, Joe Buck wrote:
>> > It turns out there is very little C++ usage of new/delete in libjava.
> > It is trivial to replace these with malloc/free (patch below).
>> This patch changes the behavior. new throws an exception on allocation
> failure; malloc returns a null pointer. Of course, you could fix your
> patch to throw the exception, or handle the error in some other way.

Right, thanks. (I don't know which is worse in this case: ignoring NULL
or not handling the exception. Either would probably be disastrous.)
I'm not completely convinced these shouldn't be using GC anyway.
Jeff