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From: cc100aa@prism.gatech.EDU (Ray Spalding)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: "Out of memory"
Message-ID: <13869@hydra.gatech.EDU>
Date: 19 Sep 90 20:39:36 GMT
References: <120394@linus.mitre.org>
Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology
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In article <120394@linus.mitre.org> laf@mbunix.mitre.org (Lee Fyock) writes:
>What causes the multifinder message "The application XXX
>unexpectedly quit (out of memory)"?  I would think that a
>memory request (NewPtr or NewHandle) would cause it, but
>shouldn't they just return null, with the appropriate MemErr?

You are correct, NewPtr/NewHandle don't cause this.  My experience has
been that you may get this when you call a system routine that expects
a good pointer or handle, and you pass in a nil.  The routines that
expect a RgnHandle seem particularly good at checking for this.
-- 
Ray Spalding, Technical Services, Office of Information Technology
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta Georgia, 30332-0275
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