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From: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
To: musl@lists.openwall.com
Subject: Re: malloc(0) behaviour
Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2013 06:52:06 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1358254326.32505.25@driftwood> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <DAD7053B-EA2B-4C1A-8AAA-2568FF1BBAAF@palsenberg.com> (from igmar@palsenberg.com on Tue Jan 15 02:31:24 2013)

On 01/15/2013 02:31:24 AM, Igmar Palsenberg wrote:
> > http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/dr_400.htm
> > http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=400
> > http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=12547
> 
> While the above is clear to me, returning a pointer that can't hold  
> anything just
> seems wrong to me.

Returning failure from an allocation that can't _not_ be satisfied  
seems wrong to me.

Rob

  parent reply	other threads:[~2013-01-15 12:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-01-14 17:17 Igmar Palsenberg
2013-01-14 18:05 ` Rich Felker
2013-01-14 22:22   ` Strake
2013-01-14 23:05     ` Rich Felker
2013-01-15  8:32     ` Igmar Palsenberg
2013-01-15 12:53       ` Rob Landley
2013-01-15 22:18         ` Igmar Palsenberg
2013-01-15  8:31   ` Igmar Palsenberg
2013-01-15 11:06     ` Szabolcs Nagy
2013-01-15 12:33       ` Igmar Palsenberg
2013-01-15 13:48         ` Rich Felker
2013-01-15 22:28           ` Igmar Palsenberg
2013-01-15 23:22             ` Rob
2013-01-16  7:46               ` Igmar Palsenberg
2013-01-15 13:46       ` Rich Felker
2013-01-15 12:52     ` Rob Landley [this message]
2013-01-14 23:37 ` Rob Landley
2013-01-15  0:24   ` Rich Felker
2013-01-15 12:17     ` Rob Landley
2013-01-15  9:01   ` Igmar Palsenberg
2013-01-15 12:58     ` Rob Landley
2013-01-15 14:54       ` dladdr() pierre
2013-01-15 18:48         ` dladdr() Rich Felker
2013-01-16 11:00           ` dladdr() pierre
2013-01-16 12:51             ` dladdr() Szabolcs Nagy
2013-01-16 14:24               ` dladdr() musl
2013-01-16 15:20                 ` dladdr() pierre
2013-01-16 16:49                 ` dladdr() Rich Felker
2013-01-16 17:42                   ` dladdr() musl
2013-01-21  2:03                     ` dladdr() Rich Felker
2013-01-21  6:58                       ` dladdr() pierre
2013-01-21 18:35                         ` dladdr() Rich Felker
2013-01-22  6:27                           ` dladdr() pierre
2013-01-22 13:07                             ` dladdr() Szabolcs Nagy
2013-01-22 13:40                               ` dladdr() pierre
2013-01-22 13:51                                 ` dladdr() Rich Felker
2013-01-22 14:59                                   ` dladdr() pierre
2013-01-22 16:11                                     ` dladdr() Szabolcs Nagy
2013-01-22 23:43                                       ` dladdr() Rich Felker

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