[PATCH] Make zero size allocation result consistent

Sebastian Huber sebastian.huber at embedded-brains.de
Tue May 4 12:11:59 UTC 2021


On 04/05/2021 14:07, Joel Sherrill wrote:
> This is undefined behaviour and I would rather they all return NULL. 

As far as I understood the POSIX text, it is implementation-defined 
behaviour and POSIX gives two valid implementation options. The patch 
removed some code (less code is always good) and now we are in line with 
Linux and FreeBSD.

> No 
> portable program should ever do this.

Yes.

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

RTEMS_DEBUG is for RTEMS internal bugs.

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