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To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@FreeBSD.org>
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 Kamp's message of "Sun, 29 Feb 2004 02:48:49 -0800 (PST)")
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Subject: Re: standards/62858: malloc(0) not C99 compliant
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Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@FreeBSD.org> writes:
> 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.

The standard does allow returning NULL, you know.

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