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Date:      Fri, 02 Nov 2001 22:04:28 +1030 (CST)
From:      "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
To:        Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   RE: cvs commit: src/lib/libc/stdlib malloc.c
Message-ID:  <XFMail.20011102220428.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <200111021132.fA2BWSs53697@freefall.freebsd.org>

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On 02-Nov-2001 Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
>    If zero bytes are allocated, return pointer to the middle of page-zero
>    (which is protected) so that the program will crash if it dereferences
>    this illgotten pointer.

Does this affect the 'V' malloc flag?

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Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer
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