> 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 !?!
It isn't buggy, it's supposed to be like that. Try writing something to
every location, you'll see your program will crash at about 20 to 16 MB,
depending on what else is running on your machine. On less recent 2.1
kernels, the machine would hang, btw, not crash, but I'm not sure if that
behavious has changed since then. I'm talking middle-thirties here, i
haven't done such tests since then.
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