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authorHuon Wilson <dbau.pp+github@gmail.com>2014-01-28 12:19:17 +1100
committerHuon Wilson <dbau.pp+github@gmail.com>2014-01-28 12:19:17 +1100
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std: comment about OOM & allocs in begin_unwind_fmt.
Follow-up to #11841 which added this function.
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-rw-r--r--src/libstd/rt/unwind.rs4
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diff --git a/src/libstd/rt/unwind.rs b/src/libstd/rt/unwind.rs
index 25a92148e96..88c6b52ec23 100644
--- a/src/libstd/rt/unwind.rs
+++ b/src/libstd/rt/unwind.rs
@@ -391,6 +391,10 @@ pub fn begin_unwind_raw(msg: *u8, file: *u8, line: uint) -> ! {
 /// the actual formatting into this shared place.
 #[inline(never)] #[cold]
 pub fn begin_unwind_fmt(msg: &fmt::Arguments, file: &'static str, line: uint) -> ! {
+    // We do two allocations here, unfortunately. But (a) they're
+    // required with the current scheme, and (b) we don't handle
+    // failure + OOM properly anyway (see comment in begin_unwind
+    // below).
     begin_unwind_inner(~fmt::format(msg), file, line)
 }