Re:Once upon a time, memory allocators made sense
by pjc50 on Monday January 18, 2016 @05:57PM
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"malloc() won't fail"
"oh yes it does"
"oh no it doesn't"
demo of malloc failing
"alloca() won't fail!"
Stop moving the goalposts. Besides, alloca() tends to crash your program a lot sooner as stack allocation is usually very limited, especially in a shared-memory multithreading context. Hardly anyone uses alloca().
"oh yes it does"
"oh no it doesn't"
demo of malloc failing
"alloca() won't fail!"
Stop moving the goalposts. Besides, alloca() tends to crash your program a lot sooner as stack allocation is usually very limited, especially in a shared-memory multithreading context. Hardly anyone uses alloca().