On Wed, Sep 18, 2019, 9:44 AM Hans Petter Selasky <h...@selasky.org> wrote:
> On 2019-09-18 10:37, Warner Losh wrote: > > On Wed, Sep 18, 2019, 12:18 AM Conrad Meyer <c...@freebsd.org> wrote: > > > >> Well, hang on; it's also perfectly legal for a malloc implementation > >> to return NULL for requests of zero bytes. You can access exactly the > >> number of bytes requested in the allocation; and free(NULL) works as > >> expected. NULL (0) is also aligned to any size you could want. > >> > > > > Legal, yes. But it is different than all the other FreeBSD environments, > > so the loader becomes the odd man out. This restores the consistency. > > > > Hi, > > The problem is the code that use malloc() that take NULL as a failure, > even if the size is zero :-) > > array = malloc(n * sizeof(q)); > if (array == NULL) > goto failure; > Such code isn't portable... Warner --HPS > > _______________________________________________ svn-src-all@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/svn-src-all To unsubscribe, send any mail to "svn-src-all-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
