"How to Ensure That Your Program Does Not Run Under Windows 95", an amusing and extremely long rant by Raymond Chen about all the weird things game developers did that didn't play well with protected memory https://ptgmedia.pearsoncmg.com/images/9780321440303/samplechapter/Chen_bonus_ch02.pdf …
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I unironically want that to be how operating systems work. Give me reserved memory or give me null. Don't give me death by the oom killer
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I remember many years ago someone got Firefox working on Nokia N770 (proto tablet) devices where this was true.
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That should be an infinte lopp with any decent malloc, right?
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It Depends™. There are real reasons to disable overcommit, whether the memory was faulted in or not. You'd think they'd at least try to dirty all the pages, though...
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Example 76/101, amazing
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This sounds hilariously like what Firefox has long been accused of, though i don't know if it's true.
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Oh no
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I've seen that in at least one game disassembly I looked at for ScummVM
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