When a Thread object's stack memory is not provided, its `start()`
member function dynamically allocates its stack from the heap. If
allocation fails, there is no way to catch it because
* `std::nothrow` is missing after the `new` keyword. As Mbed OS
is built with `-fno-exceptions` (C++ exceptions disabled), failed
allocation results in an unrecoverable fault.
* The attempted `nullptr` check, which doesn't work anyway due to
the first point, is an assertion instead of error returning.
Assertions should be used as a development tool to ensure code
behaves correctly. But out-of-memory is a completely valid runtime
situation.
This commit adds the missing `std::nothrow`, and makes `Thread::start()`
return `osErrorNoMemory` if allocation fails so the caller can handle
it.
Note: A case when a thread should never fail due to lack of memory
is the main thread. But the main thread's stack is a pre-allocated
array in the static memory, passed to the `Thread()` constructor
during thread creation, so it's not impacted by this change.
Production code should not contain any test-specific checks. Rather
than checking `UNITTEST`, unit tests can directly set
`MBED_CONF_RTOS_PRESENT=1` to make RTOS available for testing.
Note: The cellular ATHandler test also has `MBED_CONF_RTOS_PRESENT=1`
added because `ATHandler.cpp` contains a check of this variable.
Lingkai Dong
Kevin Bracey
pea-pod
Martin Kojtal
George Beckstein
Evelyne Donnaes
Ashok Rao