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Re:Once upon a time, memory allocators made sense by amelius on Monday January 18, 2016 @08:06AM (#10924132)
> (a) malloc() never returns NULL. It always returns a valid address, even though your system may have out of memory.

Unless of course you run out of virtual address space.

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