From 75e43a6b6c82d79a279876f3993a166476ea6e98 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "W. Eric Norum" <wenorum@lbl.gov>
Date: Tue, 5 Oct 2004 18:21:30 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Detect memory exhaustion.

---
 src/iocsh/iocsh.cpp | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/iocsh/iocsh.cpp b/src/iocsh/iocsh.cpp
index 26df3e6b4..464dedaf4 100644
--- a/src/iocsh/iocsh.cpp
+++ b/src/iocsh/iocsh.cpp
@@ -263,6 +263,10 @@ cvtArg (const char *filename, int lineno, char *arg, iocshArgBuf *argBuf, const
 
     case iocshArgPersistentString:
         argBuf->sval = epicsStrDup(arg);
+        if (argBuf->sval == NULL) {
+            showError (filename, lineno, "Out of memory");
+            return 0;
+        }
         break;
 
     case iocshArgPdbbase: