A NOTE has been added to this issue. ====================================================================== https://www.austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=1387 ====================================================================== Reported By: rhansen Assigned To: ajosey ====================================================================== Project: 1003.1(2008)/Issue 7 Issue ID: 1387 Category: System Interfaces Type: Clarification Requested Severity: Editorial Priority: normal Status: Under Review Name: Richard Hansen Organization: User Reference: Section: malloc Page Number: 1295 (Issue 7 2018 edition) Line Number: 43161 (Issue 7 2018 edition) Interp Status: --- Final Accepted Text: ====================================================================== Date Submitted: 2020-08-10 16:46 UTC Last Modified: 2020-08-11 01:08 UTC ====================================================================== Summary: Should EAGAIN be acceptable for malloc failure? ======================================================================
---------------------------------------------------------------------- (0004918) shware_systems (reporter) - 2020-08-11 01:08 https://www.austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=1387#c4918 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- EAGAIN, if added as Don proposes, should be a may fail case, not both as shall fail. As ENOMEM is currently synonymous with a null return with most platforms, adding a symbolic non-NULL ptr, i.e. AGAIN_PTR, would be in keeping with the C standard only using the return value to indicate errors. The implementation-defined errno possible with 0 size allocs also needs wording that it doesn't conflict with either of these, as well. Issue History Date Modified Username Field Change ====================================================================== 2020-08-10 16:46 rhansen New Issue 2020-08-10 16:46 rhansen Status New => Under Review 2020-08-10 16:46 rhansen Assigned To => ajosey 2020-08-10 16:46 rhansen Name => Richard Hansen 2020-08-10 16:46 rhansen Section => malloc 2020-08-10 16:46 rhansen Page Number => 1295 (Issue 7 2018 edition) 2020-08-10 16:46 rhansen Line Number => 43161 (Issue 7 2018 edition) 2020-08-10 16:46 rhansen Interp Status => --- 2020-08-10 17:09 rhansen Note Added: 0004914 2020-08-10 17:14 rhansen Description Updated 2020-08-10 17:35 rhansen Desired Action Updated 2020-08-10 17:36 rhansen Desired Action Updated 2020-08-10 17:39 Don Cragun Note Added: 0004915 2020-08-10 17:45 alanc Note Added: 0004916 2020-08-10 17:45 alanc Note Edited: 0004916 2020-08-11 01:08 shware_systems Note Added: 0004918 ======================================================================
