[PATCH] Return NULL for zero size allocations

Sebastian Huber sebastian.huber at embedded-brains.de
Wed May 5 07:19:49 UTC 2021


On 05/05/2021 09:00, Chris Johns wrote:
> On 5/5/21 4:58 pm, Chris Johns wrote:
>> On 5/5/21 4:52 pm, Sebastian Huber wrote:
>>> In POSIX, zero size memory allocations are implementation-defined
>>> behaviour.  The implementation has two options:
>>>
>>> https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/malloc.html
>>>
>>> https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/posix_memalign.html
>>>
>>> Linux and FreeBSD return a unique pointer for zero size memory
>>> allocations.   Return NULL on RTEMS to more likely catch the use of a
>>> zero size memory area by erroneous applications.
>>>
>>> Update #4390.
>>
>> Huh? Are we going in circles here [1]?
> Ah I have not read the related thread. Sorry.

I hoped that you break the circle ;-)

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