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From: Joel Maslak <j@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: kern/2964: malloc() returns non-null when it should not 
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The following reply was made to PR kern/2964; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Joel Maslak <j@pobox.com>
To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.dk.tfs.com>
Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: kern/2964: malloc() returns non-null when it should not 
Date: Mon, 17 Mar 1997 19:57:08 -0700 (MST)

 On Thu, 13 Mar 1997, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
 
 Paul: Sorry about the previous message, it was an error on my part.
 
 > Try this patch: 
 > 
 > Index: malloc.c
 > ===================================================================
 > RCS file: /home/ncvs/src/lib/libc/stdlib/malloc.c,v
 
 <I have the patch if needed, but Paul wrote it, so ask him.  :) >
 
 This patch worked perfectly.  I patched it into a 2.2-GAMMA system with
 absolutely no problems.  I could not get my library sources for 3.0 to
 compile cleanly, but I think that was due to when I grabbed them.
 
 I would consider this issue closed if we put this patch in. :)
 
 
 Joel Maslak
 
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