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Message-ID: <f6a511ad-9a0a-42b4-aa73-8069fbfadf28@mirbsd.de>
Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2025 17:37:00 +0200 (CEST)
From: Thorsten Glaser <tg@...bsd.de>
To: musl@...ts.openwall.com
cc: Alejandro Colomar <alx@...nel.org>, Florian Weimer <fweimer@...hat.com>, 
    Rich Felker <dalias@...c.org>, 
    Adhemerval Zanella Netto <adhemerval.zanella@...aro.org>, 
    libc-alpha@...rceware.org, Joseph Myers <josmyers@...hat.com>, 
    наб <nabijaczleweli@...ijaczleweli.xyz>, 
    Paul Eggert <eggert@...ucla.edu>, Robert Seacord <rcseacord@...il.com>, 
    Bruno Haible <bruno@...sp.org>, bug-gnulib@....org, 
    JeanHeyd Meneide <phdofthehouse@...il.com>
Subject: Re: Re: BUG: realloc(p,0) should be consistent with
 malloc(0)

On Wed, 18 Jun 2025, enh wrote:

>not when POSIX screwed up and made a change that made most of the
>existing implementations non-conformant, no. that sounds like a POSIX

“most of”?

Looks to me like most implementations already do the latter,
and some might do the former, and only a minority (the three
mentioned earlier) don’t.

bye,
//mirabilos
-- 
“It is inappropriate to require that a time represented as
 seconds since the Epoch precisely represent the number of
 seconds between the referenced time and the Epoch.”
	-- IEEE Std 1003.1b-1993 (POSIX) Section B.2.2.2

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