Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2001 22:05:12 +0100 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> To: seebs@plethora.net (Peter Seebach) Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Setting memory allocators for library functions. Message-ID: <9631.983048712@critter> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 24 Feb 2001 14:56:54 CST." <200102242056.f1OKus618979@guild.plethora.net>
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In message <200102242056.f1OKus618979@guild.plethora.net>, Peter Seebach writes : >In message <9469.983047707@critter>, Poul-Henning Kamp writes: >>The guarantee is "If malloc returns NULL there is no memory you can use". > >No, it's "if the memory is not available, malloc returns NULL". No it is not and it never was. See RFC748 for why you cannot possibly be right. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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