> With current Linux kernels, this careful coding brings no benefit
> whatsover, as malloc never (?) returns NULL. What is worse, as far as
> I know the kernel doesn't send advance warning of an OOM situation; it
> would not be too difficult to stop allocating memory when that happens.
With properly configured systems and mode 2/3 overcommit set you an
get NULL back from malloc Its up to the user
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