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Your comment was also OS-specific because Windows doesn't lie to applications about failed allocations.


Not at all, rather there is no guarantee that the C abstract machine described on ISO C, actually returns NULL on memory allocation failures as some C advocates without ISO C legalese expertise seem to advocate.




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