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Until the kernel kills you for being OOM.

That's still safe.

EDIT: Safe in the sense you're not writing into memory you don't own, e.g. write after release, buffer overflows etc.

Program that no longer runs is the safest.

For true safety we must prevent it from being written in the first place /s

That's the true meaning of backward compatibility. The [backward] refers to the time scale.

stomps butterfly

I've just saved untold generations from certain calamity.

** 6,000,000 years later **

Butterfly King: This chimpanzee-descended motherfucker ….