> On Jul 4, 2016, at 15:53, Dmitry Markman <dmark...@mac.com> wrote:
> 
> Hmm
> 
> behavior you described is good receipt to un-robust software
> 
> IMHO, all talks about “effective", “typically" and so on and on is matter of 
> interpretation
> 
> and are much less important than standard

An implementation of malloc that never returns NULL is still compliant to the 
standard.

> first of all there is a standard and nothing more. In some cases standard 
> says that behavior is undefined
> 
> but in case of “malloc" and "operator new” everything is well defined

The standard says that malloc returns NULL in case of failure. It however, says 
nothing about what constitutes a failure, or *any* situations in which NULL 
must be returned..



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