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Date:      Fri, 02 Nov 2001 12:35:32 +0100
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
To:        "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
Cc:        cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libc/stdlib malloc.c 
Message-ID:  <22914.1004700932@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 02 Nov 2001 22:04:28 %2B1030." <XFMail.20011102220428.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> 

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In message <XFMail.20011102220428.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>, "Daniel O'Connor" write
s:
>
>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?

No.  The "sysV" behaviour is unchanged.

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