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On 04/17/2012 03:02 PM, James Courtier-Dutton wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> If I have a user application that tries a malloc() or a calloc() call,
> and this call fails, is there any way to report this to a global stats
> counter, like the ones in /proc/meminfo
> Is there any way to find out that a malloc call made by a user program failed?
> 

No, because that is an internal thing to glibc.

	-hpa