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On 12/06/2009 01:00 PM, malc wrote:
> or anything else with said bit set will yield EFAULT. Consequently the
> code you cited as a well behaving malloc(0) call site will bomb.

It is not well-behaving unless the definition of EFAULT is changed 
consistently.

Paolo