memory overflow tries a garbage collection; if it fails then exit the

program.

luamem.c

@@ -3,13 +3,27 @@
 ** TecCGraf - PUC-Rio
 */
 
-char *rcs_mem = "$Id: mem.c,v 1.4 1995/01/13 22:11:12 roberto Exp roberto $";
+char *rcs_mem = "$Id: mem.c,v 1.5 1995/02/06 19:34:03 roberto Exp roberto $";
 
 #include <stdlib.h>
 #include <string.h>
+#include <stdio.h>
 
 #include "mem.h"
 #include "lua.h"
+#include "table.h"
+
+static void mem_error (void)
+{
+  Long recovered = luaI_collectgarbage();  /* try to collect garbage  */
+  if (recovered)
+    lua_error("not enough memory");
+  else
+  { /* if there is no garbage then must exit */
+    printf(stderr, "lua error: memory overflow - unable to recover\n");
+    exit(1);
+  }
+}
 
 void luaI_free (void *block)
 {
@@ -22,7 +36,7 @@ void *luaI_malloc (unsigned long size)
 {
   void *block = malloc((size_t)size);
   if (block == NULL)
-    lua_error("not enough memory");
+    mem_error();
   return block;
 }
 
@@ -31,7 +45,7 @@ void *luaI_realloc (void *oldblock, unsigned long size)
 {
   void *block = realloc(oldblock, (size_t)size);
   if (block == NULL)
-    lua_error("not enough memory");
+    mem_error();
   return block;
 }