In message <14100.61923.427423.153...@avalon.east>, Anthony Kimball writes:
>
>: > All I want is that a program gets NULL from malloc if there is no memory
>: > available. I find that to be a very fundamental thing about malloc.
>
>: Do you have a solution? We don't.
>
>Make an sbrk variant which will pre-allocate backing store.
>setenv MALLOC_PREALLOCATE
>
>Not so hard.

1. Demonstrate the need.

2. Implement it

3. Send patches.

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Poul-Henning Kamp             FreeBSD coreteam member
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