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From: Spiros Bousbouras <spibou@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: avoiding strdup()
Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2024 19:45:33 -0000 (UTC)
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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.