standards/62858: malloc(0) not C99 compliant

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <xzpznb0iwm0.fsf at dwp.des.no>, Dag-Erling =?iso-8859-1?q?Sm=F8rgrav?=
 writes:
>Poul-Henning Kamp <phk at FreeBSD.org> writes:
>> This is a deliberate choice.  Handling zero-size pointers correctly
>> in malloc(3) would be a rather involved and is currently not high
>> on the todolist.  A good patch might change that.
>
>The standard does allow returning NULL, you know.

Yes, but unfortunately that broke more software than I cared for
arguing with authors about.

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