From: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
To: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Cc: Glauber Costa <glommer@redhat.com>,
Paul Brook <paul@codesourcery.com>,
qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Permit zero-sized qemu_malloc() & friends
Date: Tue, 01 Dec 2009 15:47:56 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4B152C9C.1000202@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3k4x6g51s.fsf@crossbow.pond.sub.org>
On 12/01/09 15:08, Markus Armbruster wrote:
> For what it's worth, it violates the spec for malloc(). For zero-sized
> allocations, we may either return a null pointer (but we already decided
> we don't want to), or an object different from any other object alive.
Which clearly rules out the fixed memory location for malloc(0).
"malloc(size ? size : 1)" is indeed the easiest way to make sure we
conform to the spec and also don't return NULL.
cheers,
Gerd
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-12-01 14:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 119+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-11-30 13:55 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Permit zero-sized qemu_malloc() & friends Markus Armbruster
2009-11-30 14:01 ` Avi Kivity
2009-11-30 14:23 ` Kevin Wolf
2009-12-01 12:40 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2009-12-01 12:57 ` Paul Brook
2009-12-01 13:47 ` Glauber Costa
2009-12-01 14:08 ` Markus Armbruster
2009-12-01 14:47 ` Gerd Hoffmann [this message]
2009-12-01 14:21 ` Paul Brook
2009-12-01 12:57 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2009-12-01 13:11 ` Markus Armbruster
2009-12-01 14:34 ` Avi Kivity
2009-12-01 14:53 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2009-12-01 15:32 ` Eduardo Habkost
2009-12-04 16:49 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-12-05 13:55 ` Markus Armbruster
2009-12-05 14:14 ` Laurent Desnogues
2009-12-05 17:08 ` malc
2009-12-05 17:23 ` Avi Kivity
2009-12-05 18:30 ` Reimar Döffinger
2009-12-06 7:57 ` Markus Armbruster
2009-12-06 8:39 ` malc
2009-12-06 8:59 ` Markus Armbruster
2009-12-06 10:22 ` malc
2009-12-06 10:40 ` Avi Kivity
2009-12-06 11:53 ` malc
2009-12-06 12:07 ` Avi Kivity
2009-12-06 12:11 ` malc
2009-12-06 12:23 ` Avi Kivity
2009-12-06 11:10 ` Markus Armbruster
2009-12-06 12:00 ` malc
2009-12-06 16:23 ` [Qemu-devel] " Paolo Bonzini
2009-12-07 8:35 ` [Qemu-devel] " Kevin Wolf
2009-12-07 9:42 ` Markus Armbruster
2009-12-07 10:00 ` malc
2009-12-07 10:17 ` Kevin Wolf
2009-12-07 10:35 ` Markus Armbruster
2009-12-06 11:35 ` [Qemu-devel] " Paolo Bonzini
2009-12-06 12:02 ` malc
2009-12-06 16:23 ` Paolo Bonzini
2009-12-06 9:02 ` [Qemu-devel] " Blue Swirl
2009-12-06 10:02 ` malc
2009-12-05 17:07 ` Avi Kivity
2009-12-05 17:27 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-12-05 17:40 ` Avi Kivity
2009-12-05 17:54 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-12-05 18:06 ` Avi Kivity
2009-12-05 20:58 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-12-05 22:26 ` Avi Kivity
2009-12-06 8:24 ` Markus Armbruster
2009-12-06 18:36 ` Jamie Lokier
2009-12-06 8:12 ` Markus Armbruster
2009-12-06 16:52 ` Ian Molton
2009-12-06 17:14 ` Avi Kivity
2009-12-06 17:45 ` malc
2009-12-06 18:02 ` Avi Kivity
2009-12-06 18:12 ` malc
2009-12-06 18:19 ` Avi Kivity
2009-12-06 18:41 ` malc
2009-12-07 9:47 ` Avi Kivity
2009-12-07 10:20 ` Kevin Wolf
2009-12-06 22:38 ` Ian Molton
2009-12-07 2:51 ` Jamie Lokier
2009-12-07 9:39 ` Ian Molton
2009-12-07 9:55 ` [Qemu-devel] " Paolo Bonzini
2009-12-07 13:28 ` Avi Kivity
2009-12-07 9:45 ` [Qemu-devel] " Markus Armbruster
2009-12-07 8:48 ` Kevin Wolf
2009-12-07 17:32 ` Glauber Costa
2009-12-05 17:28 ` Blue Swirl
2009-12-05 17:44 ` Avi Kivity
2009-12-05 18:16 ` Laurent Desnogues
2009-12-05 23:08 ` Ian Molton
2009-12-05 23:11 ` Avi Kivity
2009-12-05 23:25 ` Ian Molton
2009-12-06 13:07 ` Avi Kivity
2009-12-06 16:58 ` Ian Molton
2009-12-06 17:07 ` Avi Kivity
2009-12-06 17:47 ` malc
2009-12-06 17:59 ` Avi Kivity
2009-12-06 18:09 ` malc
2009-12-06 18:16 ` Avi Kivity
2009-12-06 18:21 ` malc
2009-12-06 22:40 ` Ian Molton
2009-12-06 18:31 ` Jamie Lokier
2009-12-07 9:56 ` Markus Armbruster
2009-12-07 11:30 ` malc
2009-12-07 14:45 ` Markus Armbruster
2009-12-07 16:55 ` malc
2009-12-08 8:21 ` Markus Armbruster
2009-12-08 10:22 ` malc
2009-12-07 15:50 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-12-07 16:00 ` Avi Kivity
2009-12-07 16:06 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-12-07 16:11 ` Avi Kivity
2009-12-07 16:20 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-12-07 16:26 ` Avi Kivity
2009-12-07 16:32 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-12-07 16:37 ` Avi Kivity
2009-12-07 16:59 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-12-07 17:07 ` Avi Kivity
2009-12-07 17:09 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-12-07 17:13 ` Avi Kivity
2009-12-07 17:17 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-12-07 17:19 ` Avi Kivity
2009-12-07 17:40 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-12-07 18:25 ` Avi Kivity
2009-12-07 18:59 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-12-07 19:01 ` Avi Kivity
2009-12-07 19:07 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-12-07 16:24 ` Paul Brook
2009-12-07 16:27 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-12-07 16:28 ` Avi Kivity
2009-12-07 16:57 ` malc
2009-12-07 17:01 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-12-07 17:09 ` malc
2009-12-08 9:02 ` Kevin Wolf
2009-12-07 18:12 ` Blue Swirl
2009-12-08 8:30 ` Markus Armbruster
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