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From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@FreeBSD.org>
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Subject: Re: standards/62858: malloc(0) not C99 compliant
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Synopsis: malloc(0) not C99 compliant

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State-Changed-By: phk
State-Changed-When: Sun Feb 29 02:46:49 PST 2004
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This is a deliberate choice.  Handling zero-size pointers correctly
in malloc(3) would be a rather involved and is currently not high
on the todolist.  A good patch might change that.

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=62858