Re: "not enough memory" message misleading

[Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux.fr>]

On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 12:22:04AM +0100, Bill Allombert wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 11:38:42PM +0100, Jeroen Demeyer wrote:
> > In pari_init_stack(), the message
> > 
> > ***   Warning: not enough memory, new stack X
> > 
> > is produced when malloc() failed to allocate X bytes, but I find
> > that confusing: it sounds like X bytes were successfully allocated
> > (after a previous failed allocation).
> 
> It is an historical bug, it was supposed to say:
> ***   Warning: not enough memory, new stack X/2
> 
> It should say:
> 
> ? allocatemem(30000000000)
>   ***   Warning: not enough memory, new stack 15000000000.
>   ***   Warning: new stack size = 15000000000 (14305.115 Mbytes).

I restored this behaviour in git b4b5e86bf1a.

Thanks for your report!
Bill.