Re: Setting memory allocators for library functions.

[Dag-Erling Smorgrav]

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter Seebach) writes:
> In message <9877.983050267@critter>, Poul-Henning Kamp writes:
> > And just how will the OS know that a particular memory chip will not
> > generate an uncorrectable ECC error ?
> It can't, but that's no reason for the OS to *add* reasons for failures.

It doesn't (and I'm very close to using expletives here). On the
contrary, it tries to always satisfy the application's requests and
hopes for the best. It's quite possible that memory isn't available
when you call malloc(), but becomes available before you actually get
to dirty the pages that were allocated.

DES
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