Re: [Boost-testing] [asio] [test] CVS head: Out Of Memory Results in Endless Loop

From: Martin Wille (mw8329_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-05-30 02:54:18

Caleb Epstein wrote:
> Platform: Solaris x86, gcc 4.2.0, Boost CVS HEAD
> 
> I'm running the Boost Regression tests on a machine at home and
> several of the asio test programs appear to be eating up all physical
> memory and hitting std::bad_alloc.
> 
> The out-of-memory condition seems to be getting swallowed up by
> Boost.Test, resulting in endless loops of this (according to truss):

Is this another instance of the problem described at the URLs below (and
at other places)?

 http://lists.boost.org/Archives/boost/2004/07/67288.php
 http://lists.boost.org/Archives/boost/2004/07/67298.php

I complained several times about the signal handling that is not
conforming to the C++ standard. I'd be quite "unhappy" if this still
didn't get resolved.

Regards,
m