Get memory overflow caused by a memory leak and the application keep running and allocating

Question

I developed a small application for a memory leak stress:

#include 
#include 

int main(int argc, char **argv)
{
    int period =          


        

Answer 1

Crash will happen when you try to use memory after when allocation actually fails. (other reasons include dereferencing wild pointer, trying to access memory that belongs to other process etc.) but if allocation fails due to unavailability of memory, that alone will not result in crash.