He clearly has never heard of mallopt (http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man3/mallopt.3.html http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man3/mallopt.3.html) so he doesn't kn

He clearly has never heard of mallopt (http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man3/mallopt.3.html http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man3/mallopt.3.html) so he doesn't know that instead of wrapping every single malloc with an if statement you can just tell malloc to abrt if it ever fails to allocate memory. In his defense most programs don't test the return of malloc and don't set the abort on failure so most programmers would just assume that if your not checking your return values that you made a mistake.