Malloc_Allocator isn't a pool, so it needs to fail directly if malloc

fails, not just return 0 since callers expect that the allocator will
either succeed or throw.

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/src/alloc/system_alloc/defalloc.cpp b/src/alloc/system_alloc/defalloc.cpp
index 311057462..596deb3d0 100644
--- a/src/alloc/system_alloc/defalloc.cpp
+++ b/src/alloc/system_alloc/defalloc.cpp
@@ -54,7 +54,9 @@ void do_free(void* ptr, u32bit n, bool do_lock)
 */
 void* Malloc_Allocator::allocate(u32bit n)
    {
-   return do_malloc(n, false);
+   void* ptr = do_malloc(n, false);
+   if(!ptr)
+      throw Memory_Exhaustion();
    }
 
 /*