Does malloc lazily create the backing pages for an allocation on Linux (and other platforms)?

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Linux does deferred page allocation, aka. ‘optimistic memory allocation’. The memory you get back from malloc is not backed by anything and when you touch it you may actually get an OOM condition (if there is no swap space for the page you request), in which case a process is unceremoniously terminated.

See for example http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2006/11/30/linux-out-of-memory.html

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