I think you are correct, the problem is, what would cause my death handlers to be invoked?

What I mean is, if my program can never recieve notification of the impending disaster, how will it know to do clean-up?

From what I could workout, stealing 64k at the top of the program, just means that it runs out of memory 64k earlier than it would have. Then it makes use of the 64k reserve transparently, and then fails when the reserve runs out.

As I said in the original thread, the code is there and does seem to be activated, but from the perspective of my perl script, the result is (more or less) identical because it just fails with 'Out of memory' or a Dr.Watson pop-up, or a core dump depending upon how I have my system configured.

As far as I could work out, there is no way for my script to be notified that the reserve buffer is being used, so it has no way to do anything about it?

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In reply to Re^4: Is $^M a leftover April Fool? by BrowserUk
in thread Is $^M a leftover April Fool? by BrowserUk

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