To:	djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Subject:	Re: Virtual memory and malloc().
Date:	Fri, 05 Jun 92 11:25:13 PDT
From:	Jonathan Ryshpan <hitachi!jon%amito DOT halsp DOT hitachi DOT com AT uunet DOT UU DOT NET>

>...
>My fervent opinion is that malloc() should return a NULL, not crash, when
>it runs out of memory.

Probably go32 ought to understand a PLINIT environment variable giving
the max process size, or swap file size if this is more convenient, in
(say) K-bytes.  A program which allocates more than 40,000 or 50,000 
K-bytes is very likely broken.  If not, change the environment.

Who volunteers to do this?

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