Always check malloc'ed memory?

Question

I often catch myself doing the following (in non-critical components):

some_small_struct *ptr=(some_small_struct *) malloc(sizeof(some_small_struct));
ptr-&g         


        

Answer 1

Yes, having insufficient memeory will almost certatinly presage other failures coming soon. But how sure are you that no corrupt output will occur between the failure to allocate and the final crash?

How sure are you for every program, every time you make an edit.

Catch your errors so you can know you crashed on time.