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Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2013 18:17:47 +0100
From: Igmar Palsenberg <igmar@...senberg.com>
To: "musl@...ts.openwall.com" <musl@...ts.openwall.com>
Subject: malloc(0) behaviour
Hi,
Is there a (good) reason for Musl to follow glibc's malloc(0) behaviour ? Musl returns a valid pointer, which is fine according
to the standard, but returning NULL is also fine.
IMHO, returning NULL is better : It usually kills the program if actual storage is attempted. You also can't do that if a valid pointer
is returned, so I really can't grasp the reason for returning a pointer at all, except to support buggy and lazy programming.
I suggest we make malloc(0) return a NULL pointer. Any objections ?
Regards,
Igmar
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