[U-Boot] [PATCH] Prevent malloc with size 0

Mike Frysinger vapier at gentoo.org
Mon Apr 2 05:12:34 CEST 2012


On Sunday 01 April 2012 20:25:44 Graeme Russ wrote:
> b) The code calling malloc(0) is making a perfectly legitimate assumption
>    based on how glibc handles malloc(0)

not really.  POSIX says malloc(0) is implementation defined (so it may return a 
unique address, or it may return NULL).  no userspace code assuming malloc(0) 
will return non-NULL is correct.
-mike
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