Re: [Gaim-devel] Resolving IP addresses in Gaim

[Ethan B. <ebl...@cs...>]

Mark Doliner spake unto us the following wisdom:
> Memory faults... like, hardware problems or OS bugs?  I kinda feel like we
> shouldn't really worry about designing Gaim so that it doesn't crash if t=
here
> are memory faults.  Besides, our memory use in the lookup process is orde=
rs of
> magnitude less than our memory use in the rest of Gaim.  If we have a mem=
ory
> fault somewhere it's pretty unlikely that it's going to be in the DNS pro=
cess.

Memory faults like stack/heap corruption, SIGSEGV, SIGBUS.  Obviously
I'm not concerned about making Gaim survivable w.r.t. hardware
failure.  It's just an IM program.  ;-)

Ethan

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