Re: Why is this outputting alternate blank lines?

From	"James R. Kuyper" <jameskuyper@verizon.net>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.c
Subject	Re: Why is this outputting alternate blank lines?
Date	2016-12-14 15:21 -0500
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On 12/14/2016 03:05 PM, Richard Heathfield wrote:
> On 14/12/16 19:57, Keith Thompson wrote:
...
>> On the other hand, on some systems malloc() generally doesn't report
>> failure; rather if you allocate too much memory, a crash occurs when you
>> try to access it.  (This is arguably non-conforming.)
>
> Arguably? I'd have said it's absolutely definitely non-conforming. The
> malloc function is /required/ to report failure if the memory can't be
> allocated.
...
> What intrigues me, though, is why you think this is arguable. I suspect
> that you probably share my take on this. If you were to play Devil's
> Advocate, though, what arguments would you muster for such behaviour
> being conforming?

For myself, I would call it "arguable" for no better reason than the 
empirical fact that I've seen people argue about the issue. The fact 
that I think the other side's arguments don't hold water doesn't change 
the fact that they are, in fact, willing to argue about them.

I don't entirely discount the quality of the arguments - for instance, 
Jerry Stuckle routinely argues truly ridiculous points without ever 
bothering to present any stronger argument than "you're an idiot for 
disagreeing with me". If such are the only "arguments" I've seen on an 
issue, that's not enough for me to label it as "arguable". Unless you at 
least attempt to address the points made by the other side, it's just 
loud angry posturing, not an actual argument.

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Why is this outputting alternate blank lines? DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2016-12-13 23:18 -0500
  Re: Why is this outputting alternate blank lines? Melzzzzz <mel@zzzzz.com> - 2016-12-14 05:30 +0100
  Re: Why is this outputting alternate blank lines? mark.bluemel@gmail.com - 2016-12-14 00:59 -0800
  Re: Why is this outputting alternate blank lines? Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2016-12-14 10:38 +0000
    Re: Why is this outputting alternate blank lines? DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2016-12-14 12:53 -0500
      Re: Why is this outputting alternate blank lines? Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2016-12-14 18:05 +0000
        Re: Why is this outputting alternate blank lines? Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2016-12-14 11:57 -0800
          Re: Why is this outputting alternate blank lines? Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2016-12-14 20:05 +0000
            Re: Why is this outputting alternate blank lines? "James R. Kuyper" <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2016-12-14 15:21 -0500
            Re: Why is this outputting alternate blank lines? Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2016-12-14 12:28 -0800
              Re: Why is this outputting alternate blank lines? supercat@casperkitty.com - 2016-12-14 13:09 -0800
              Re: Why is this outputting alternate blank lines? Jean-Marc Bourguet <jm@bourguet.org> - 2016-12-14 22:53 +0100
                Re: Why is this outputting alternate blank lines? <william@wilbur.25thandClement.com> - 2016-12-14 15:47 -0800
            Re: Why is this outputting alternate blank lines? Joe Pfeiffer <pfeiffer@cs.nmsu.edu> - 2016-12-14 15:41 -0700
              Re: Why is this outputting alternate blank lines? Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2016-12-14 23:26 +0000
                Re: Why is this outputting alternate blank lines? Joe Pfeiffer <pfeiffer@cs.nmsu.edu> - 2016-12-14 17:33 -0700
                Re: Why is this outputting alternate blank lines? Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2016-12-15 00:42 +0000
                Re: Why is this outputting alternate blank lines? supercat@casperkitty.com - 2016-12-14 17:05 -0800
                Re: Why is this outputting alternate blank lines? Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2016-12-15 08:21 +0000
                Re: Why is this outputting alternate blank lines? supercat@casperkitty.com - 2016-12-15 09:15 -0800
                Re: Why is this outputting alternate blank lines? Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2016-12-15 17:50 +0000
                Re: Why is this outputting alternate blank lines? supercat@casperkitty.com - 2016-12-15 12:15 -0800
                Re: Why is this outputting alternate blank lines? Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2016-12-15 20:37 +0000
                Re: Why is this outputting alternate blank lines? raltbos@xs4all.nl (Richard Bos) - 2016-12-15 20:08 +0000
                Re: Why is this outputting alternate blank lines? Joe Pfeiffer <pfeiffer@cs.nmsu.edu> - 2016-12-14 20:40 -0700
                Re: Why is this outputting alternate blank lines? Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2016-12-15 08:36 +0000
                Re: Why is this outputting alternate blank lines? Joe Pfeiffer <pfeiffer@cs.nmsu.edu> - 2016-12-15 17:43 -0700
                Re: Why is this outputting alternate blank lines? Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2016-12-16 01:05 +0000
                Re: Why is this outputting alternate blank lines? Joe Pfeiffer <pfeiffer@cs.nmsu.edu> - 2016-12-15 18:34 -0700
                Re: Why is this outputting alternate blank lines? <william@wilbur.25thandClement.com> - 2016-12-15 10:14 -0800
                Re: Why is this outputting alternate blank lines? raltbos@xs4all.nl (Richard Bos) - 2016-12-15 20:15 +0000
            Re: Why is this outputting alternate blank lines? Tim Rentsch <txr@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2016-12-15 01:51 -0800
              Re: Why is this outputting alternate blank lines? asetofsymbols@gmail.com - 2016-12-15 06:09 -0800
                Re: Why is this outputting alternate blank lines? Tim Rentsch <txr@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2016-12-15 17:47 -0800
          Re: Why is this outputting alternate blank lines? Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2016-12-14 12:15 -0800
            Re: Why is this outputting alternate blank lines? <william@wilbur.25thandClement.com> - 2016-12-15 10:24 -0800
          Re: overcommit is the plague Noob <root@127.0.0.1> - 2016-12-17 01:17 +0100
      Re: Why is this outputting alternate blank lines? Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2016-12-14 20:19 +0000
        Re: Why is this outputting alternate blank lines? DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2016-12-14 17:44 -0500
          Re: Why is this outputting alternate blank lines? Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2016-12-15 00:21 +0000
            Re: Why is this outputting alternate blank lines? mark.bluemel@gmail.com - 2016-12-15 00:56 -0800
              Re: Why is this outputting alternate blank lines? Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2016-12-15 22:08 +0000
      Re: Why is this outputting alternate blank lines? Geoff <geoff@invalid.invalid> - 2016-12-14 13:39 -0800
      Re: Why is this outputting alternate blank lines? Ike Naar <ike@iceland.freeshell.org> - 2016-12-16 07:12 +0000

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