abort on error - is this being addressed?

[Vincent Lefevre]

On 2010-08-26 11:38:10 +0200, Marc Glisse wrote:
> On Thu, 26 Aug 2010, Allan Chandler wrote:
> >   GNU MP unconditionally calls abort() on allocation failures,
> >   which are bound to happen with certain insanely large
> >   computations. This is unacceptable behaviour for a library and
> >   reason enough to write your own arbitrary-precision code.
> 
> First, notice that any OS that overcommits memory (like Linux unless
> you use some option that is not recommended) makes the point moot.

Linux no longer blindly overcommits, so that if you have insanely
large computations, malloc will fail.

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