On Fri, 2005-02-11 at 03:50, Marwan Burelle wrote:
> On Thu, 10 Feb 2005 09:59:53 -0500, John Prevost <j.prevost@gmail.com> wrote:
> > In a program that allocates one very large chunk of memory, 

> It also depends on malloc, on Linux it sometimes works
> "optimisticaly", that is, it won't realy allocate memory unless you
> use it

This behaviour is not allowed by the ISO C Standard.
This case was actually discussed by WG14.

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