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by pjmlp 252 days ago
OS specific hack and unrelated to C.
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tredre3 252 days ago
Your comment was also OS-specific because Windows doesn't lie to applications about failed allocations.
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pjmlp 251 days ago
Not at all, rather there is no guarantee that the C abstract machine described on ISO C, actually returns NULL on memory allocation failures as some C advocates without ISO C legalese expertise seem to advocate.
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