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alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk said:
>  Not having a fallback is unacceptable. Thats the real problem. You
> can't go around pandering to sloppy coders who can't work a memory
> allocator 

OTOH there is perhaps some justification for distinguishing between 'If you 
fail this I'll tell the user -ENOMEM and continue happily on my way' 
allocations and 'If you fail this I lose track of hardware state and all is 
fucked till we reboot' ones.

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dwmw2


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