>From: John Maier <johnam@datastorm.com>
>Date: Tue, 23 Jul 1996 09:24:30 -0500
>
>I need to allocate 1,545,000 bytes of memory for an array of structures.  I have enough memory, 64 Megs worth, on my i386 running 1.1.
>
>I have tried using calloc and malloc and when I run the final app, it core dumps.
>
>Get ready, now when I run it under xxgdb or just gbd it works!  Executes, process the data, everything!!!
>
>So what's up?

You need to check the value returned by [mc]alloc().  If it's NULL,
your code should punt.

See also: limit(1).
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