Re: Setting memory allocators for library functions.

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Peter Seebach writes
:
>In message <9469.983047707@critter>, Poul-Henning Kamp writes:
>>The guarantee is "If malloc returns NULL there is no memory you can use".
>
>No, it's "if the memory is not available, malloc returns NULL".

No it is not and it never was.

See RFC748 for why you cannot possibly be right.

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