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Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2013 06:52:06 -0600
From: Rob Landley <rob@...dley.net>
To: musl@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: malloc(0) behaviour

On 01/15/2013 02:31:24 AM, Igmar Palsenberg wrote:
> > http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/dr_400.htm
> > http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=400
> > http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=12547
> 
> While the above is clear to me, returning a pointer that can't hold  
> anything just
> seems wrong to me.

Returning failure from an allocation that can't _not_ be satisfied  
seems wrong to me.

Rob

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