standards/62858: malloc(0) not C99 compliant

Bruce Cran bruce at cran.org.uk
Tue Dec 30 16:10:06 UTC 2008


The following reply was made to PR standards/62858; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Bruce Cran <bruce at cran.org.uk>
To: bug-followup at FreeBSD.org,stefan at fafoe.narf.at, phk at freebsd.org
Cc:  
Subject: Re: standards/62858: malloc(0) not C99 compliant
Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2008 16:06:21 +0000

 It appears that with jemalloc in 7.0 onwards, the behaviour has changed
 and is now C99 compliant: malloc(0) returns a unique pointer that
 increments by 2 bytes each time.
 
 -- 
 Bruce Cran


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