malloc (was: making a request to IBM)

[Paul Chamberlain]

jfh at greenber.austin.ibm.com (John F Haugh II) writes:
>Better would be a way to say "over commit" or "don't over commit" via
>some configuration (like SMIT) option.

How about a flag, a compile option, a special routine, or something
that an application can do, to say "Please over-commit memory for me
and you can kill me if you run out."

Then make that nasty fortran compiler do it automatically.   :-)

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