[Libguestfs] [PATCH 2/2] lib: Add comment and regression test for case where main process has large heap.

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Wed, Oct 14, 2015 at 05:03:28PM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> +  /* Make sure we're using > 1GB in the main process. */
> +  mem = calloc (2 * 1024, 1024 * 1024);
> +  assert (mem != NULL);

This won't work on 32 bit platforms, because it's unlikely we could
allocate 2 GB of contiguous memory.  So I'm proposing to keep the test
but have it skip if the calloc() call fails.

Rich.

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