Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Permit zero-sized qemu_malloc() & friends

[Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>]

On 12/06/2009 12:22 PM, malc wrote:
> Here, i believe, you are inventing artificial restrictions on how
> malloc behaves, i don't see anything that prevents the implementor
> from setting aside a range of addresses with 31st bit set as an
> indicator of "zero" allocations, and then happily giving it to the
> user of malloc and consumming it in free.
>    

The implementation needs to track which addresses it handed out, since 
it is required that malloc(0) != malloc(0) (unless both are NULL).

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