Date: Mon, 01 Mar 2004 13:24:07 +0100 From: des@des.no (Dag-Erling =?iso-8859-1?q?Sm=F8rgrav?=) To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@FreeBSD.org> Cc: freebsd-standards@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: standards/62858: malloc(0) not C99 compliant Message-ID: <xzpznb0iwm0.fsf@dwp.des.no> In-Reply-To: <200402291048.i1TAmnCt060370@freefall.freebsd.org> (Poul-Henning Kamp's message of "Sun, 29 Feb 2004 02:48:49 -0800 (PST)") References: <200402291048.i1TAmnCt060370@freefall.freebsd.org>
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Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@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. DES --=20 Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav - des@des.no
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