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Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org,
	Alexander Best <alexbestms@math.uni-muenster.de>
Subject: Re: mmap/munmap with zero length
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"Paul B. Mahol" <onemda@gmail.com> writes:
> there is V flag for malloc.conf

Irrelevant.

> It wouldn't improve badly written program.

Allocating or mapping a zero-length region is not necessarily a bug.

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