Re: Return value of malloc(0)

Johannes Weiner <hnazfoo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

Hi,

On Wed, Jun 28, 2006 at 08:10:45PM +0200, Andre Albsmeier wrote:
"If you use malloc(0) and are crazy enough to access the 'allocated'
memory we give you a SIGSEV to show you how dumb you are :-)".

They should check the return value of malloc() in any case for
successful allocation.. shouldn't they?

The value returned from malloc(0) must not be dereferenced whatever it
was. It was 0x800, which doesn't count as "failure".

--
Matthias Andree
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