Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2001 21:48:27 +0100 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> To: seebs@plethora.net (Peter Seebach) Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Setting memory allocators for library functions. Message-ID: <9469.983047707@critter> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 24 Feb 2001 14:43:47 CST." <200102242043.f1OKhl618691@guild.plethora.net>
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In message <200102242043.f1OKhl618691@guild.plethora.net>, 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. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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