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Why? The situation in which it occurs is unambiguous. Allocate more memory than is available and watch it fail less than gracefully. What you're suggesting is m
by curryst 7y ago
Why? The situation in which it occurs is unambiguous. Allocate more memory than is available and watch it fail less than gracefully. What you're suggesting is merely technical gatekeeping; there is nothing to gain from writing a special purpose OOM-causer, no less specifying that it must be written in C.