arrays that are too big

[Berkeley Hynes]

What is the standard behaviour of a compiled C program which declares an
array which is too big given the system's available memory?

Whenever I use dynamic memeory I always test for malloc's error codes,
but it occurred to me that I don't test anything to make sure an array
has been properly allocated.  Should I be testing something?

Thanks in advance,

Berkeley Hynes
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