standards/62858: malloc(0) not C99 compliant

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <20040302223950.GF1021 at wombat.fafoe.narf.at>, Stefan Farfeleder writes:
>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?

Yes.

>> Does the code also fail if you give
>> malloc the 'V' flag ?
>
>No, modulo PR bin/62859 where I forgot to CC you :)

I'll look at this tomorrow if I have time.

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