standards/62858: malloc(0) not C99 compliant
Stefan Farfeleder
stefan at fafoe.narf.at
Tue Mar 2 14:40:00 PST 2004
On Mon, Mar 01, 2004 at 05:37:31PM +0100, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> I want to make sure people who malloc(0) and then deref the pointer get
> the core dump they need to debug their problem.
So you want malloc(0) to return a different pointer to unmapped memory
every time it is called?
> But lets turn this around, do you have evidence of code which breaks
> with the current behaviour ?
I think only conformance checking software will notice this.
> Does the code also fail if you give
> malloc the 'V' flag ?
No, modulo PR bin/62859 where I forgot to CC you :)
Cheers,
Stefan
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