[PATCH] Make zero size allocation result consistent

Joel Sherrill joel at rtems.org
Tue May 4 12:07:46 UTC 2021


This is undefined behaviour and I would rather they all return NULL. No
portable program should ever do this.

In fact, it should be something caught in debug mode.

On Tue, May 4, 2021, 6:45 AM Sebastian Huber <
sebastian.huber at embedded-brains.de> wrote:

> On 04/05/2021 08:49, Gedare Bloom wrote:
> > ok. This could break applications in strange ways if they depended on
> > the old behavior. A clear note will be needed in release.
>
> I added this to the release notes:
>
>
> https://git.rtems.org/rtems-release/commit/?id=f48aea09d8d82ab80568ad2edcd02b8a11bea886
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