From 3c9dbf3ed8803f3675400abdbabb3aff308086c2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jack Grigg <jack@z.cash>
Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2018 10:39:23 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Improve best-effort logging before termination on OOM

Suggested by @kallewoof in bitcoin/bitcoin#9856
---
 src/init.cpp | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/src/init.cpp b/src/init.cpp
index 852fd8b50..39013e187 100644
--- a/src/init.cpp
+++ b/src/init.cpp
@@ -730,6 +730,7 @@ bool AppInitServers(boost::thread_group& threadGroup)
     // Since LogPrintf may itself allocate memory, set the handler directly
     // to terminate first.
     std::set_new_handler(std::terminate);
+    fputs("Error: Out of memory. Terminating.\n", stderr);
     LogPrintf("Error: Out of memory. Terminating.\n");
 
     // The log was successful, terminate now.