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Re: Why is this outputting alternate blank lines?

From Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk>
Newsgroups comp.lang.c
Subject Re: Why is this outputting alternate blank lines?
Date 2016-12-15 20:37 +0000
Organization Fix this later
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On 15/12/16 20:15, supercat@casperkitty.com wrote:
> On Thursday, December 15, 2016 at 11:50:59 AM UTC-6, Richard Heathfield wrote:
>> On 15/12/16 17:15, supercat wrote:

<snip>
>
>>> but
>>> if an application knows

I read this bit...

>>> in advance of receiving input

...and I didn't read this bit...

>>> how much memory it is
>>> going to need, and can't do anything useful without it, having the program
>>> die with a system-generated "Out of memory error" isn't much less useful than
>>> having a program-generated "Sorry, but I can't allocate enough memory."

...and I read this bit. Consequently, I wrote:

>>
>> I disagree. A program-generated "Sorry, but I can't allocate enough
>> memory for opening a new image. In fact, I think I need to close, but
>> before I do, let's try and save what you've done so far" is a damn sight
>> more useful than a syste^\<#!+89E$-+q"|(NO CARRIER
>
> If the program attempts unsuccessfully to acquire the memory it needs
> in advance of receiving input, how much work can a user have done by that
> point?

If I'd read the bit I didn't read, I'd have given a different answer. :-)

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Why is this outputting alternate blank lines? DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2016-12-13 23:18 -0500
  Re: Why is this outputting alternate blank lines? Melzzzzz <mel@zzzzz.com> - 2016-12-14 05:30 +0100
  Re: Why is this outputting alternate blank lines? mark.bluemel@gmail.com - 2016-12-14 00:59 -0800
  Re: Why is this outputting alternate blank lines? Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2016-12-14 10:38 +0000
    Re: Why is this outputting alternate blank lines? DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2016-12-14 12:53 -0500
      Re: Why is this outputting alternate blank lines? Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2016-12-14 18:05 +0000
        Re: Why is this outputting alternate blank lines? Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2016-12-14 11:57 -0800
          Re: Why is this outputting alternate blank lines? Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2016-12-14 20:05 +0000
            Re: Why is this outputting alternate blank lines? "James R. Kuyper" <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2016-12-14 15:21 -0500
            Re: Why is this outputting alternate blank lines? Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2016-12-14 12:28 -0800
              Re: Why is this outputting alternate blank lines? supercat@casperkitty.com - 2016-12-14 13:09 -0800
              Re: Why is this outputting alternate blank lines? Jean-Marc Bourguet <jm@bourguet.org> - 2016-12-14 22:53 +0100
                Re: Why is this outputting alternate blank lines? <william@wilbur.25thandClement.com> - 2016-12-14 15:47 -0800
            Re: Why is this outputting alternate blank lines? Joe Pfeiffer <pfeiffer@cs.nmsu.edu> - 2016-12-14 15:41 -0700
              Re: Why is this outputting alternate blank lines? Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2016-12-14 23:26 +0000
                Re: Why is this outputting alternate blank lines? Joe Pfeiffer <pfeiffer@cs.nmsu.edu> - 2016-12-14 17:33 -0700
                Re: Why is this outputting alternate blank lines? Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2016-12-15 00:42 +0000
                Re: Why is this outputting alternate blank lines? supercat@casperkitty.com - 2016-12-14 17:05 -0800
                Re: Why is this outputting alternate blank lines? Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2016-12-15 08:21 +0000
                Re: Why is this outputting alternate blank lines? supercat@casperkitty.com - 2016-12-15 09:15 -0800
                Re: Why is this outputting alternate blank lines? Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2016-12-15 17:50 +0000
                Re: Why is this outputting alternate blank lines? supercat@casperkitty.com - 2016-12-15 12:15 -0800
                Re: Why is this outputting alternate blank lines? Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2016-12-15 20:37 +0000
                Re: Why is this outputting alternate blank lines? raltbos@xs4all.nl (Richard Bos) - 2016-12-15 20:08 +0000
                Re: Why is this outputting alternate blank lines? Joe Pfeiffer <pfeiffer@cs.nmsu.edu> - 2016-12-14 20:40 -0700
                Re: Why is this outputting alternate blank lines? Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2016-12-15 08:36 +0000
                Re: Why is this outputting alternate blank lines? Joe Pfeiffer <pfeiffer@cs.nmsu.edu> - 2016-12-15 17:43 -0700
                Re: Why is this outputting alternate blank lines? Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2016-12-16 01:05 +0000
                Re: Why is this outputting alternate blank lines? Joe Pfeiffer <pfeiffer@cs.nmsu.edu> - 2016-12-15 18:34 -0700
                Re: Why is this outputting alternate blank lines? <william@wilbur.25thandClement.com> - 2016-12-15 10:14 -0800
                Re: Why is this outputting alternate blank lines? raltbos@xs4all.nl (Richard Bos) - 2016-12-15 20:15 +0000
            Re: Why is this outputting alternate blank lines? Tim Rentsch <txr@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2016-12-15 01:51 -0800
              Re: Why is this outputting alternate blank lines? asetofsymbols@gmail.com - 2016-12-15 06:09 -0800
                Re: Why is this outputting alternate blank lines? Tim Rentsch <txr@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2016-12-15 17:47 -0800
          Re: Why is this outputting alternate blank lines? Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2016-12-14 12:15 -0800
            Re: Why is this outputting alternate blank lines? <william@wilbur.25thandClement.com> - 2016-12-15 10:24 -0800
          Re: overcommit is the plague Noob <root@127.0.0.1> - 2016-12-17 01:17 +0100
      Re: Why is this outputting alternate blank lines? Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2016-12-14 20:19 +0000
        Re: Why is this outputting alternate blank lines? DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2016-12-14 17:44 -0500
          Re: Why is this outputting alternate blank lines? Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2016-12-15 00:21 +0000
            Re: Why is this outputting alternate blank lines? mark.bluemel@gmail.com - 2016-12-15 00:56 -0800
              Re: Why is this outputting alternate blank lines? Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2016-12-15 22:08 +0000
      Re: Why is this outputting alternate blank lines? Geoff <geoff@invalid.invalid> - 2016-12-14 13:39 -0800
      Re: Why is this outputting alternate blank lines? Ike Naar <ike@iceland.freeshell.org> - 2016-12-16 07:12 +0000

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