Berkeley Hynes wrote:
> 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
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The system should not be able to load the program if it does not fit into
memory. If the program is running, it means that all the static variables
are 'allocated'.