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		ibotty on April 15, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: An RFC that adds support for Rust to the Linux ker... How can you catch allocation failure from ::new? Is it possible without exceptions (which have some other problems in kernel space)?

steerablesafe on April 15, 2021 [–]

One can use ::new(std::nothrow), which selects the non-throwing allocation function. Returns nullptr on failure.

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