> On Jun 9, 2015, at 9:51 AM, Quincey Morris > <quinceymor...@rivergatesoftware.com> wrote: > > I might be misremembering, but I think this has come up before, and one other > way is that malloc is allowed to return NULL if the requested size is 0. > (Whether or not it does so is standard-library-implementation-dependent.)
I think I remember that coming up recently. In Darwin, malloc(0) does return a non-NULL pointer. As far as I know it’s a valid heap block that just happens to occupy 0 bytes. —Jens _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
