On Thu, 31 Jan 2008, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
Insufficient ram does not EVER cause a segmentation fault. Only buggy code causes segmentation faults. If a bad programmer simply calls malloc and doesn't check that it succeeded before using it, then you get a segmentation fault, but only because the programmer didn't write proper code.
absolutely true. But then, who is so diligent to always do so, especially
when developing your own code for scientific computation? I've written some,
and only when it was for "public consumption" I cared to put all the checks
in all the places... :P
Ciao
Giacomo
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