Unusual memory allocation problem

Chetan Kumar (chetan@protocol.ece.iisc.ernet.in)
Mon, 14 Sep 1998 22:04:27 +0530 (IST)

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Hi
Take a look at this piece of code, I compiled this with gcc ver
2.7.2.1 on linux box 2.0.30, with i486, 8M ram and 16M swap, to my surpise
I did not get any error, the code succeeded allocating 400*2M mem !!!!

On the other hand on a sloaries I could promplty get error Could not find
free space.

Any this buggy !?!
with thanks

chetan . S
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