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Date:      Thu, 29 Jun 2006 18:56:29 +0200
From:      joerg@britannica.bec.de
To:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Return value of malloc(0)
Message-ID:  <20060629165629.GA6875@britannica.bec.de>
In-Reply-To: <805AA34B676EDF411B3CF548@Zelazny>
References:  <20060628181045.GA54915@curry.mchp.siemens.de> <20060628212956.GI822@wombat.fafoe.narf.at> <805AA34B676EDF411B3CF548@Zelazny>

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On Thu, Jun 29, 2006 at 11:44:23AM -0400, Pat Lashley wrote:
> No, our implementation is NOT legal.  We always return the SAME value.  To 
> be legal, we should not return that value again unless it has been 
> free()-ed.

It is legal due to brain damaged definition of implementation defined
behaviour, but it violates the spirit of the standard :-)

Joerg



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