Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2004 23:39:54 +0100 From: Stefan Farfeleder <stefan@fafoe.narf.at> To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> Cc: freebsd-standards@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: standards/62858: malloc(0) not C99 compliant Message-ID: <20040302223950.GF1021@wombat.fafoe.narf.at> In-Reply-To: <59773.1078159051@critter.freebsd.dk> References: <20040301160022.GA13617@VARK.homeunix.com> <59773.1078159051@critter.freebsd.dk>
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On Mon, Mar 01, 2004 at 05:37:31PM +0100, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > I want to make sure people who malloc(0) and then deref the pointer get > the core dump they need to debug their problem. So you want malloc(0) to return a different pointer to unmapped memory every time it is called? > But lets turn this around, do you have evidence of code which breaks > with the current behaviour ? I think only conformance checking software will notice this. > Does the code also fail if you give > malloc the 'V' flag ? No, modulo PR bin/62859 where I forgot to CC you :) Cheers, Stefan
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