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From: Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: avoiding strdup()
Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2024 13:11:02 -0700
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Spiros Bousbouras <spibou@gmail.com> writes:
> On Mon, 11 Mar 2024 10:13:12 -0700
> Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> wrote:
>> One data point: On my Ubuntu system, malloc(SIZE_MAX) returns NULL for
>> very large arguments (over about 23 GiB in my quick and dirty test).
>
> You lost me there.

Sorry, editing error.  I initially tried malloc(SIZE_MAX) and got a NULL
result.  I then tried smaller values to try to find out where the cutoff
is, and didn't correctly edit the post.

Corrected version:
One data point: On my Ubuntu system, malloc() returns NULL for
very large arguments (over about 23 GiB in my quick and dirty test).

-- 
Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com
Working, but not speaking, for Medtronic
void Void(void) { Void(); } /* The recursive call of the void */