Guennadi Liakhovetski <gl@dsa-ac.de> [2003-09-12 11:21]:
>
> IIRC, user-space application stack can grow dynamically, right? Now, if
> this is so, what happens in ENOMEM? Say, in a function, I can either
> explicitly malloc(), or I can have a local char buf[...]. Will the app
> just sleep "forever" waiting for RAM to become available?
>
it's questionable whether malloc() allocates buffer on stack. I've
always thought it was on heap.
if you have
int foo()
{
char buffer[XYZ];
}
buffer would be on stack. Stack size can be calculated at
compile-time. ENOMEM should never be returned there IIRC.
wbr,
Lukas
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