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From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
To: root@chaos.analogic.com
Cc: Linux kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: modutils-2.3.15 'insmod'
Date: Wed, 09 Jul 2003 17:45:22 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jer84zln59.fsf@sykes.suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.53.0307091119450.470@chaos> (Richard B. Johnson's message of "Wed, 9 Jul 2003 11:25:11 -0400 (EDT)")

"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.

Andreas.

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"And now for something completely different."

  reply	other threads:[~2003-07-09 15:30 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 [this message]
2003-07-09 16:04   ` Bill Rugolsky Jr.
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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