2017-11-26 2:05 GMT+01:00 Derek Buitenhuis <derek.buitenh...@gmail.com>:
> On 11/26/2017 12:14 AM, Carl Eugen Hoyos wrote:
>> I am of course in favour of such checks but is there an allocator we support
>> that actually returns NULL on oom?
>
> Anything that doesn't use overcommit. Windows is the big obvious one here. 
> Also
> various UNIX-like things, and even Linux is not guaranteed to return non-NULL,
> depending on how the kernel is set up (e.g. on some RHELs I think, or on
> plenty of embedded setups.)
>
> Some libcs will fail if the requested size is outside of the allowed range.

Thank you for the explanation!

Carl Eugen
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