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From: russotto@eng.umd.edu (Matthew T. Russotto)
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Subject: Re: Multifinder - "Out of application memory"?
Keywords: multifinder
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Date: 4 Jan 91 04:19:24 GMT
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In article <2842@cirrusl.UUCP> brian%cirrusl@oliveb.ATC.olivetti.com (Brian Feinberg) writes:
>Does anyone know precisely what traps can cause the above message?
>I have a program that has intermittently done this, and it appears that 
>the code is pretty thorough about checking for low memory conditions.
>Therefore, I am trying to look at particular trap calls that might result in 
>the above message. 

Just about any trap call that can allocate memory (and thats most of them!)
and doesn't have an 'out of memory' graceful error return can cause it. 
Some that do have a 'out of memory' error code can also cause this error when
memory is very short.  I think MacsBug will tell you which trap ultimately
caused the error, but of course this trap was not necessarily called
directly by your program.
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