From: "Bill Rugolsky Jr." <brugolsky@telemetry-investments.com>
To: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
Cc: root@chaos.analogic.com, Linux kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: modutils-2.3.15 'insmod'
Date: Wed, 9 Jul 2003 12:04:45 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030709160445.GE21969@ti19> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jer84zln59.fsf@sykes.suse.de>
On Wed, Jul 09, 2003 at 05:45:22PM +0200, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> "Richard B. Johnson" <root@chaos.analogic.com> writes:
>
> |> It is likely that malloc(0) returning a valid pointer is a bug
> |> that has prevented this problem from being observed.
>
> It's not a bug, it's a behaviour explicitly allowed by the C standard.
... and has long been used to generate unique cookies of pointer type.
Regards,
Bill Rugolsky
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-07-09 15:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-07-09 15:25 modutils-2.3.15 'insmod' Richard B. Johnson
2003-07-09 15:45 ` Andreas Schwab
2003-07-09 16:04 ` Bill Rugolsky Jr. [this message]
2003-07-09 22:44 ` H. Peter Anvin
2003-07-09 23:51 ` Richard B. Johnson
2003-07-09 16:08 ` Kurt Wall
2003-07-09 16:33 ` Andy Isaacson
2003-07-14 11:41 ` Keith Owens
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