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Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2001 01:34:46 +0100 (BST)
From: Daniel Barker <sokal AT holyrood DOT ed DOT ac DOT uk>
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Subject: Re: malloc() problem, DJDEV 203
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There seems to be another problem as well. Some significantly smaller
requests that are still large enough that they must fail, e.g.,
4294378000U bytes, also cause malloc() to return non-NULL.

I was experimenting to find the exact size at which the problem sets in,
but my computer spontaneously rebooted before I got the answer. I became
nervous and didn't press on.

The operating system is Windows 98 SP1.

On Mon, 2 Jul 2001, DJ Delorie wrote:

>
> > Alternatively, DJGPP malloc() could be changed to return NULL for
> > zero-byte allocations. This is a significant change of behaviour but is
> > allowed by the C standard.
>
> No, there are far too many programs that expect malloc(0) to succeed,
> even if the standard allows it to fail.

-- 
Daniel Barker.