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From: Chris Friesen <cfriesen@nortelnetworks.com>
To: breeves@redhat.com
Cc: linux-os@analogic.com, Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	James Antill <james.antill@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: don't let mmap allocate down to zero
Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2005 13:08:46 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <41F7EABE.2050900@nortelnetworks.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1106762261.10384.30.camel@breeves.surrey.redhat.com>

Bryn Reeves wrote:

> RETURN VALUE
>   For calloc() and malloc(), the value returned is a pointer to the
>   allocated  memory,  which  is suitably aligned for any kind of
>   variable, or NULL if the request fails.
> 
> This could get pretty confusing if NULL was a valid address...

Internally the library can use mmap().  Presumably they will map a 
MAP_FAILED return code from mmap() to a NULL return code in malloc().

Chris

  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-01-27  2:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-01-26 16:18 don't let mmap allocate down to zero Rik van Riel
2005-01-26 16:38 ` linux-os
2005-01-26 17:05   ` Sytse Wielinga
2005-01-26 17:34   ` Chris Friesen
2005-01-26 17:57     ` Bryn Reeves
2005-01-26 18:37       ` linux-os
2005-01-26 18:54         ` Rik van Riel
2005-01-26 19:09           ` linux-os
2005-01-26 19:13         ` Chris Friesen
2005-01-26 19:08       ` Chris Friesen [this message]
2005-01-26 18:10   ` Olivier Galibert
2005-01-26 18:20     ` linux-os
2005-01-26 18:31       ` Olivier Galibert
2005-01-26 18:39         ` linux-os
2005-01-26 19:41   ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-01-26 20:26   ` Andy Isaacson
2005-01-26 20:42     ` Rik van Riel
2005-01-26 22:12   ` Kyle Moffett
2005-01-26 23:31   ` Brian Gerst
2005-01-26 17:25 ` William Lee Irwin III
2005-01-27  5:09   ` William Lee Irwin III
2005-01-27  5:18     ` Dave Jones
2005-01-27  5:28       ` William Lee Irwin III
2005-01-27  9:29     ` Mikael Pettersson
2005-01-27 12:52       ` William Lee Irwin III
2005-01-27 14:25         ` Russell King
2005-01-27 15:12           ` William Lee Irwin III
2005-01-27 19:22             ` Rik van Riel
2005-01-27 20:44               ` William Lee Irwin III
2005-01-27 20:58                 ` Rik van Riel
2005-01-27 21:13                   ` William Lee Irwin III
2005-01-27 21:28                     ` Rik van Riel
2005-01-28  5:30                       ` William Lee Irwin III
2005-01-28 13:01                         ` Rik van Riel
2005-01-28 14:14                           ` Hugh Dickins
2005-01-28 14:26                             ` William Lee Irwin III
2005-01-28 15:41                             ` Rik van Riel
2005-01-28 15:53                               ` Hugh Dickins
2005-01-27 21:58                     ` linux-os
2005-01-27 14:26         ` Mikael Pettersson

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