Re: Setting memory allocators for library functions.

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Peter Seebach writes
:
>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.

The guarantee is "If malloc returns NULL there is no memory you can use".

That doesn't mean that just because != NULL is returned that memory
will in fact be available.

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