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** [patches:#562] fix crash with large arrays**

**Status:** open **Group:** bugfix **Labels:** puredata crash array out-of-memory **Created:** Mon Oct 05, 2015 06:05 PM UTC by IOhannes m zmölnig **Last Updated:** Mon Oct 05, 2015 06:05 PM UTC **Owner:** Miller Puckette **Attachments:**

- [0001-check-if-array-was-resized-successfully.patch](https://sourceforge.net/p/pure-data/patches/562/attachment/0001-check-if-arr...) (1.2 kB; text/x-diff)

when creating largish tables (e.g. `[table foo 1e9]` on my 64bit machine with only 8GB of RAM), Pd crashes.

`resizebytes()` correctly reports out-of-memory, but unfortunately `array_resize()` ignores this and happily tries to initialize the 1st few gigabyte of memory starting at `0x0000`, resulting in a crash.

attached patch fixes this by cancelling the resize-request when an out-of-memory is detected. (the array stays untouched in this case).

while this might not be what the user expects, a crash is certainly even less deisrable. (and at least it is possible to check the size of the array after a resize, so a patch stays consistent).

there are a few more unchecked calls to `resizebytes()` (and `getbytes()`), but i think it is easiest to get an out-of-memory with requesting huge arrays; so this is the most important use to fix.

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