[Info-vax] Bizarro crash... where to begin...

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In article <4e986f99$0$19711$c3e8da3$c8b7d2e6 at news.astraweb.com>, JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot at vaxination.ca> writes:
>John Reagan wrote:
>
>> alloc's only fail for strange reasons like register backing store full or 
>> somebody garbled the registers that point to the backing store.
>
>What you say "fail" you mean cause a crash ?
>
>I was undeer the impression that alloc would also fail if you've
>exhausted your pgflquota. (but it would just return 0 instead of causing
>a crash).

'alloc' is an Itanium instruction.  It has nothing at all to do with memory
allocation in a traditional VMS sense.  It is the instruction which handles
the register allocation and renaming in an Itanium call.

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