There has been a lot of arguments around not bothering to check the return of malloc(). I can say in this case. char *large = malloc((size_t)-1); if(NU

There has been a lot of arguments around not bothering to check the return of malloc(). I can say in this case. char *large = malloc((size_t)-1); if(NULL == large) { perror("Well that failed"); Compiles fine and outputs: Well that failed: Cannot allocate memory