[flurrything]

What do these Zig functions do in systems with overcommit ? (that is, Linux, MacOS, *BSDs, Android, iOS, ...).

[AnIdiotOnTheNet]

Same thing as everyone else: play russian roulette with the OOM-killer and hope that whatever was important to the user didn't get destroyed. Can't really do anything about the OS lying to you.

[flurrything]

How do Zig programmers using Linux or MacOS validate that their OOM handling is correct?

[AnIdiotOnTheNet]

There's an allocator in the standard library that is specifically designed to fail.

https://github.com/ziglang/zig/blob/master/std/debug/failing...