Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2003 14:38:18 -0700 (PDT) From: Rostislav Krasny <rosti_bsd@yahoo.com> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: malloc does not return null when out of memory Message-ID: <20030724213818.46089.qmail@web14807.mail.yahoo.com>
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> > The Single UNIX Specification extends malloc() function, a little. > > Following URL is of the manual page of this function: > > http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007904975/functions/malloc.html > > Read "ERRORS" and "Issue 6" sections. Should FreeBSD be conformed to > > this standard? > > FreeBSD malloc is POSIX/SUSv3 compliant. It returns NULL and sets > errno to ENOMEM if insufficient storage space is available. Then why Gabor <gabor@vmunix.com> reported that it doesn't return NULL when insufficient storage space is available? Am I misunderstand something? __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com
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