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: > All I want is that a program gets NULL from malloc if there is no memory
: > available. I find that to be a very fundamental thing about malloc.

: Do you have a solution? We don't.

Make an sbrk variant which will pre-allocate backing store.
setenv MALLOC_PREALLOCATE

Not so hard.


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