Stephane Eranian wrote:
Hi,
On Sun, Mar 25, 2007 at 06:30:34PM +0200, Folkert van Heusden wrote:
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.
That's interesting, so many different behaviors! Personally, I still prefer
when malloc(0) returns zero because it makes it easier to catch errors.
Exactly, the address returned is not really useful, the improved error
checking is useful.
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