Try not to cause a MemoryError when raising an exception during nterrupt handling.

Step 1 fixes #732

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/py/objexcept.c b/py/objexcept.c
index 9f421373b..b4a831c62 100644
--- a/py/objexcept.c
+++ b/py/objexcept.c
@@ -37,6 +37,7 @@
 #include "objtype.h"
 #include "runtime.h"
 #include "runtime0.h"
+#include "gc.h"
 
 typedef struct _mp_obj_exception_t {
     mp_obj_base_t base;
@@ -335,6 +336,10 @@ void mp_obj_exception_clear_traceback(mp_obj_t self_in) {
 }
 
 void mp_obj_exception_add_traceback(mp_obj_t self_in, qstr file, machine_uint_t line, qstr block) {
+    if (gc_is_locked()) {
+        // We can't allocate memory, so don't bother to try
+        return;
+    }
     GET_NATIVE_EXCEPTION(self, self_in);
 
     // for traceback, we are just using the list object for convenience, it's not really a list of Python objects