Malloc bug?

[Paul Schinder]

At 3:40 PM -0500 7/18/00, Nathan Ingersoll wrote:
>I've been working on a GTK program for a while now, and I've been
>experiencing segfaults within malloc. I was under the impression that
>malloc should always return successfully (at least that's what the man
>page says).

No, it shouldn't.  If there's no memory left, it will return NULL.
Software should be checking for this.

>Any ideas what may be causing this? I don't know if this has
>anything to do with it, but the kernel I was using generated lots of
>vm_do_try_free_pages failed error logs but not necessarily during program
>execution.
>
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