It might handle the malloc failure by crashing. Some languages (e.g., Rust) and runtimes (e.g., glib) presume that small allocations always succeed; a failure i

It might handle the malloc failure by crashing. Some languages (e.g., Rust) and runtimes (e.g., glib) presume that small allocations always succeed; a failure in such an allocation immediately crashes the program (as the underlying API provides no means to report the failure).