Re: Sv: Sv: Sv: Sv: Memory allocators

[Christian Reiniger <warewolf@mayn.de>]

Bjarke Hammersholt Roune wrote:

>>       while (1)
>>          {
>>          x = new char [1048576];
>>          if (x == 0)
>>             {
>>             cout << "NULL returned on memory failure" << endl;
>>             break;
>>             }
>>          }

>Ehh? 1.048.576 bytes is something like 1 megabyte. I do think most any
>system will be able to allocate 1 megabyte of memory.

You forget the while (1). So it's in fact an infinite amount of memory ;)

>Windows can't run out of memory, though, atleast not if theres enough
>harddisk space and the size of the swap-file has not been limited. It'll
>happily shred your harddisk before reporting not enough memory.

Hmm, right. Win has very bad memory management. But for Unices it will work
fine.


	Christian
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