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On Mon, 21 Jul 2025 21:14:20 GMT, Charlie Gibbs wrote:

> The top entry in my list of Famous Last Words is "Oh, don't worry about
> that - it'll never happen."  I had learned that "never" is usually about
> six months.  At the very least, if your program issues an appropriate
> error message before aborting, you'll have a chance of finding and
> fixing the deficiency.  These days, I've gotten into using realloc() to
> enlarge the area in question; if it works, I quietly continue, and if
> not I put out a nasty error message and quit.

I test the return of malloc(), calloc(), and realloc() and attempt to log 
the error. I have caught a calloc() error whem the nmemb parameter was 
negative due to bad math but I'm not that optimistic about logging being 
successful when memory allocation is failing. Still, I tried...