Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 05 Jun 2007 07:40:46 -0700 | From | Jeremy Fitzhardinge <> | Subject | Re: SLUB: Return ZERO_SIZE_PTR for kmalloc(0) |
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Rene Herman wrote: > No, what we have is a sizeof(pointer) sized pointer pointing to an > object of size zero. ZERO_SIZE_PTR is butt-ugly. With a really ugly butt.
It doesn't matter. It will never, ever, be used by anything except the kmalloc internals. No client code should ever use the constant for anything.
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