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Message-ID: <CAJgzZoqn76SmogvEsLm2R8HcwkqKofn5E481Hw4XBLOFjAt4Tg@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2025 12:26:15 -0400
From: enh <enh@...gle.com>
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, Jun 18, 2025 at 11:37 AM Thorsten Glaser <tg@...bsd.de> wrote:
>
> 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”?

...weighted by number of users (who could be negatively affected by
change), of course.

> 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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