NULL call to _Workspace_Free() via _Objects_Extend_information at startup

[Peter Dufault]

On Mar 1, 2011, at 2:44 , Sebastian Huber wrote:

> do you experience this behavior with the debug variant of RTEMS or with the
> normal configuration?
Debugging enabled.
> 
> A call to _Heap_Free(NULL) must return true.

You mean a call to _Heap_Free(heap_control, NULL) must return true.  Fine, someone must update the interface documentation to add that requirement.

Just to be a trouble-maker, what should these functions return given a NULL heap block pointer?  Currently it is unspecified.

_Heap_Block_size(block), _Heap_is_free(block), _Heap_is_block_in_heap(const Heap_Control *heap, const Heap_Block *block).

Ideally the definition should be derived from a concise definition of what a NULL heap block pointer means, and those operations that are undefined should be specified as undefined.

One could argue that _Heap_Block_size(0) == 0, _Heap_is_free(0) == true, _Heap_is_block_in_heap(0, *) == true.  I'm not arguing it, though, since I'm not presenting the "concise definition" I mention above.

Peter
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Peter Dufault
HD Associates, Inc.      Software and System Engineering