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scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) writes:

> Bonita Montero <Bonita.Montero@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Am 08.06.2025 um 18:58 schrieb Scott Lurndal:
>>
>>> Actually it very much matters where the allocation failed, if
>>> one wishes to recover from it.
>>
>> This very rarely makes sense.  It's almost always the case that if
>> an  operation fails, it doesn't matter what allocation was behind
>> it.
>
> Have you ever written real-world production code?    Like an operating
> system, where allocation failures should -never- result in an
> inability to recover.

You're talking to someone who can't understand the difference
between comp.lang.c and comp.lang.c++.  What do you expect?