Lukas Geyer wrote: > The address space is expanded immediately but physical memory pages are > assigned at the moment the memory is accessed; either never, always or > at kernels discretion, depending on the implemented overcommit strategy [1].
Right, but malloc will return NULL if the address space is not available. This is less likely on a 64 bit system, but quite possible on a 32 bit system. Whether you can actually use that memory is a different question, but it's certain that you can't use it if the address is NULL! Graeme Gill. _______________________________________________ Interest mailing list Interest@qt-project.org http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/interest
