Stefan Krah <ste...@bytereef.org> added the comment:

> The first warning line in the initial message of this bug report tries to 
> allocate 872 petabyte.

Yes, that's for systems like Linux where you never know what overallocation is 
going to permit and subsequently freeze the system.


Special casing malloc() for OS X/large allocations sounds like a good plan.

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