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From: murat@farcomp.UUCP (Murat Konar)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: "Out of memory"
Message-ID: <238@farcomp.UUCP>
Date: 20 Sep 90 16:59:58 GMT
References: <120394@linus.mitre.org>
Reply-To: murat@farcomp.UUCP (Murat Konar)
Organization: Farallon Computing Inc. Berkeley, CA
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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?


I'm not certain, but perhaps this is what happens when a program 
tries to load in a code segment and fails due to lack of memory.



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