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From: Folkert van Heusden <folkert@vanheusden.com>
To: Vignesh Babu BM <vignesh.babu@wipro.com>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@hpl.hp.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
ak@suse.de, Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de>
Subject: Re: kmalloc() with size zero
Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2007 18:30:34 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070325163013.GW741@vanheusden.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1174624770.10742.2.camel@wriver-t81fb058.linuxcoe>
> > I'd say "feature", glibc's malloc also returns an address on
> > malloc(0).
> >
> This is implementation defined-the standard allows for return of either
> null or an address.
Entirely for entertainment: AIX (5.3) returns NULL, IRIX returns a valid
address.
Folkert van Heusden
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-03-25 16:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-03-23 0:18 Stephane Eranian
2007-03-23 1:38 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-03-23 4:39 ` Vignesh Babu BM
2007-03-25 16:30 ` Folkert van Heusden [this message]
2007-03-26 8:09 ` Stephane Eranian
2007-03-29 14:39 ` Bill Davidsen
2007-03-23 15:12 ` Christoph Lameter
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