Re: Setting memory allocators for library functions.

[Peter Seebach]

In message <9402.983047348@critter>, Poul-Henning Kamp writes:
>>Well, no, but the sole available definition of "portable" says that it is
>>"portable" to assume that all the memory malloc can return is really
>>available.

>No, this is not a guarantee.

Yes, it is.  If the memory isn't available, malloc returns NULL.

>We also don't guarantee that you can read a file just because you
>managed to open it (disk errors, nfs servers going away, forced
>unmounts).

Sure.  And all the IO functions have return codes.

-s

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