Fixing out-of-memory issues in Redland RDF libraries

By Ohad Barzilay 12 November 2008 No Comment

Lauri Aalto published a post on his blog about converting Redland RDF libraries to Symbian OS, and the issues he had to tackle:

…There’s already a rather well established OOM testing technique on Symbian OS called OOM loop. The basic idea is to inject allocation failures using __UHEAP_SETFAIL() heap failure macro, which in turn uses User::__DbgSetAllocFail(), and then see how the code deals with allocation failures. John Pagonis writes extensively about the OOM loop construct in his Symbian Developer Network technical paper…