pmNoMem(3)

pmNoMem3

Report out of memory conditions

C synopsis

#include <pcp/pmapi.h>

void pmNoMem(const char *where, size_t size, int fatal);

cc ... -lpcp

Overview

pmNoMem is a convenience method that may be used when malloc(3) or a related memory allocation service fails.

A standard message is emitted using pmNotifyErr(3) with where used as a message prefix and the failing allocation size is also reported.

If fatal is zero (and PM_RECOV_ERR is zero), pmNoMem returns (the allocation failure is assumed to be recoverable by the caller), else (and PM_FATAL_ERR is a good value to use in this case) exit(2) is called with an argument of 1.

Releases

5 releases since Debian 10 (Buster); the text changed 2 times.

  1. 10
  2. 11–13
  3. Arch

From pcp 7.2.2-2 in Arch Linux 2026-11-01. Parsed by carta from the page's man source.