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Date:      Thu, 29 Jun 2006 07:42:22 +0200
From:      Johannes Weiner <hnazfoo@googlemail.com>
To:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Return value of malloc(0)
Message-ID:  <20060629054222.GA92895@leiferikson.flosken.lan>
In-Reply-To: <20060628181045.GA54915@curry.mchp.siemens.de>
References:  <20060628181045.GA54915@curry.mchp.siemens.de>

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Hi,

On Wed, Jun 28, 2006 at 08:10:45PM +0200, Andre Albsmeier wrote:
> "If you use malloc(0) and are crazy enough to access the 'allocated'
> memory we give you a SIGSEV to show you how dumb you are :-)".

They should check the return value of malloc() in any case for
successful allocation.. shouldn't they?

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