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From: Bruce Cran <bruce@cran.org.uk>
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Subject: Re: standards/62858: malloc(0) not C99 compliant
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The following reply was made to PR standards/62858; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Bruce Cran <bruce@cran.org.uk>
To: bug-followup@FreeBSD.org,stefan@fafoe.narf.at, phk@freebsd.org
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Subject: Re: standards/62858: malloc(0) not C99 compliant
Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2008 16:06:21 +0000

 It appears that with jemalloc in 7.0 onwards, the behaviour has changed
 and is now C99 compliant: malloc(0) returns a unique pointer that
 increments by 2 bytes each time.
 
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 Bruce Cran