Well, to be honest, very few programs are able to orchestrate >2GB allocations correctly when complied to 32 bit binary, like Visual Studio linker is not aware of >2GB sizes by default (one need to /LARGEADDRESSAWARE flag for it), which was a trouble for modern browsers because linker was unable to fit everything in limited virtual address space.
And another to be honest, very few programs on desktops/mobile are actually checking return values of malloc/calloc, because of amount of data that program operates is usually much smaller than amount of RAM available. It's sure a case for embedded, but you simply usually don't use malloc for embedded.
And another to be honest, very few programs on desktops/mobile are actually checking return values of malloc/calloc, because of amount of data that program operates is usually much smaller than amount of RAM available. It's sure a case for embedded, but you simply usually don't use malloc for embedded.