Consequences of out of heap space errors

Question

Hello,
I'm curious what are the consequences of an out of heap space error. If my application is running and I get a heap space error does this corrupt my application? If I had some variable x = 123 can a out of heap space error corrupt x to make it -123?
Thanks

Answer 1

Hello,
I'm curious what are the consequences of an out of
heap space error. If my application is running and I
get a heap space error does this corrupt my
application? If I had some variable x = 123 can a
out of heap space error corrupt x to make it -123?
No.
Corrupt is to harsh of a word.
However where you run out of space can make your application unusable. For example you might run out of space when loading a new class. Or when creating a new thread. Does your code account for that? If not then that could be a problem.
On the other hand if you are creating a large data structure and at some point you run out of memory then if you just go back to where you started the creation and remove all references then it shouldn't impact your application.