Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 9 Jul 2003 12:04:45 -0400 | From | "Bill Rugolsky Jr." <> | Subject | Re: modutils-2.3.15 'insmod' |
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On Wed, Jul 09, 2003 at 05:45:22PM +0200, Andreas Schwab wrote: > "Richard B. Johnson" <root@chaos.analogic.com> writes: > > |> It is likely that malloc(0) returning a valid pointer is a bug > |> that has prevented this problem from being observed. > > It's not a bug, it's a behaviour explicitly allowed by the C standard.
... and has long been used to generate unique cookies of pointer type.
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