Re: Variable-sized lines of text in linked list

In article <8763w7304p.fsf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Ben Pfaff <blp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

At the same time bear in mind that many, if not most, general
systems today supply virtual memory. That means that malloc won't
run out of space until the disk does, to all practical purposes.

My PC here has 160 GB of free disk space, but only 3 GB of
virtual address space is available to any given application at a
time, so that is not remotely true.

And virtual memory is not necessarily all-you-can-eat. Many systems
have pre-allocated swap space.

-- Richard
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