Good to know it's not required, but I'd certainly say it's a bad default. I can understand an app that is denied a malloc crashing. But an app which thinks it

Good to know it's not required, but I'd certainly say it's a bad default. I can understand an app that is denied a malloc crashing. But an app which thinks it has successfully been allocated memory, being chosen at random to crash? Not ideal, just like in OP's example.