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    <p>Out of memory conditions can happen even on modern computers with lots of memory, if the user or system administrator restricts (see ulimit) the memory space for a process, or the operating system supports memory allocation limits per user. In pathological cases, fragmentation makes this fairly likely, even.</p> <p>However, since use of dynamically allocated memory is prevalent in modern programs, for good reasons, it becomes very hairy to handle out-of-memory errors. Checking and handling errors of this kind would have to be done everywhere, at high cost of complexity.</p> <p>I find that it is better to design the program so that it can crash at any time. For example, make sure data the user has created gets saved on disk all the time, even if the user does not explicitly save it. (See vi -r, for example.) This way, you can create a function to allocate memory that terminates the program if there is an error. Since your application is designed to handle crashes at any time, it's OK to crash. The user will be surprised, but won't lose (much) work.</p> <p>The never-failing allocation function might be something like this (untested, uncompiled code, for demonstration purposes only):</p> <pre><code>/* Callback function so application can do some emergency saving if it wants to. */ static void (*safe_malloc_callback)(int error_number, size_t requested); void safe_malloc_set_callback(void (*callback)(int, size_t)) { safe_malloc_callback = callback; } void *safe_malloc(size_t n) { void *p; if (n == 0) n = 1; /* malloc(0) is not well defined. */ p = malloc(n); if (p == NULL) { if (safe_malloc_callback) safe_malloc_callback(errno, n); exit(EXIT_FAILURE); } return p; } </code></pre> <p>Valerie Aurora's article <a href="http://lwn.net/Articles/191059/" rel="noreferrer">Crash-only software</a> might be illuminating.</p>
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