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Indeed. Rather than explode the spaceship, there should be a light which says 'please do not press that malloc button again'. It is relatively easy to generate such a large memory request in PDL even accidentally, by the nature of the language, And 200 Mb objects aren't much these days in the era of Gb memory computers.
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