diffoscope timing out.

[Chris Lamb]

Holger Levsen wrote:

> I think there is definitly an UI bug in diffoscope here. If/when diffoscope
> runs out of memory, it should state that clearly and not throw 42 lines of
> traceback at the user.

Good idea. I've added that here:

  https://salsa.debian.org/reproducible-builds/diffoscope/commit/bb887ddb6e5763b15d4ed9bb448166901dc7253f

However:

> Note that because of the underlying memory management architecture
> (C’s malloc() function), the interpreter may not always be able to
> completely recover from this situation; it nevertheless raises an
> exception so that a stack traceback can be printed, in case a
> run-away program was the cause.
>
> — https://docs.python.org/2/library/exceptions.html#exceptions.MemoryError

... so this may not work in all situations.


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