Re: Setting memory allocators for library functions.

[Dag-Erling Smorgrav]

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter Seebach) writes:
> In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Farooq Mela writes:
> > How do you guys feel about this?
> It is a mistake to believe that you "don't have to worry about running
> out of memory".  You should always check, every time, and exit as gracefully
> as you can.

This is all academic since FreeBSD does memory overcommit, so unless
you run out of address space for your process before you run out of
actual memory and/or swap (not likely, but quite possible) malloc()
will never return NULL and you won't know a thing until you dirty one
page too many and segfault.

DES
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