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Fix "illegal cpu instruction" in vec-alloc.md
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As per #132
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mexus authored Apr 20, 2019
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Expand Up @@ -37,8 +37,8 @@ that, we'll need to use the rest of the heap APIs. These basically allow us to
talk directly to Rust's allocator (jemalloc by default).

We'll also need a way to handle out-of-memory (OOM) conditions. The standard
library calls `std::alloc::oom()`, which in turn calls the the `oom` langitem.
By default this just aborts the program by executing an illegal cpu instruction.
library calls `std::alloc::oom()`, which in turn calls the the `oom` langitem,
which aborts the program in a platform-specific manner.
The reason we abort and don't panic is because unwinding can cause allocations
to happen, and that seems like a bad thing to do when your allocator just came
back with "hey I don't have any more memory".
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