Re: A true story of a crash.

Gregory Maxwell (linker@z.ml.org)
Mon, 17 Aug 1998 02:57:02 -0400 (EDT)


On Sun, 16 Aug 1998, wolff@cardit.et.tudelft.nl, Rogier Wolff wrote:

> The argument AGAINST overcommitting is:
>
> I happent to have a couple of important applications that DO know
> what to do in the "malloc-returns-NULL" case.

and it doesn't discourage programmers from being lazy and way
over allocating.

> Regards,
>
> Roger.
>
>

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