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Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2013 06:53:52 -0600
From: Rob Landley <rob@...dley.net>
To: musl@...ts.openwall.com
Cc: musl@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: malloc(0) behaviour
On 01/15/2013 02:32:55 AM, Igmar Palsenberg wrote:
> > On 14/01/2013, Rich Felker <dalias@...ifal.cx> wrote:
> > Another: Null means allocation failure. As malloc ought to never
> fail
> > to find zero bytes free, it thus makes sense to return a non-null
> > pointer.
>
> A valid pointer also means you should be able to store something.
Says who? Fire up the mmap() man page and look at PROT_NONE.
Rob
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