Malloc bug?

[Nathan Ingersoll]

On Tue, 18 Jul 2000, Paul Schinder wrote:

> 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.

Right, but it's not returning at all. It's segfaulting inside the malloc
function before it returns anything.

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