@MissConstrue ok, but do you know if this[*] is common practice in programs written in C?[*] https://social.noyu.me/@hikari/statuses/01M5FKSAZR531Y1PG1HHBCJ4YJ -> «PHP is a million or so lines of C code that pervasively used alloc functions that longjmp() on failure, so OOM bailout creates corrupted state. the fix uses fallible allocs and a global please-return-early OOM flag but requires touching Everything. completeness is impossible»