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From: Duncan Sands <baldrick@free.fr>
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Subject: Re: Is the Ada run-time required to detect out-of-memory
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> Did you refile the bug against the kernel?  As I understand it now, the
> problem is not that the kernel raises SIGKILL if physical RAM is
> exhausted, but that malloc doesn't check that the allocation can succeed
> before making it.

I don't believe that malloc can check before making the allocation (on a system
that overcommits memory).  Maybe it can check after making the allocation though.

Duncan.