From: Andrew Cagney <ac131313@cygnus.com>
To: Kevin Buettner <kevinb@cygnus.com>
Cc: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFA] utils.c: Fix xcalloc (0, 0) behavior
Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2001 12:28:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3AA3F64E.9F0302A5@cygnus.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1010303075808.ZM24102@ocotillo.lan>
Kevin Buettner wrote:
>
> According to section 16.1 in Harbison & Steele, it is permissible for
> calloc(0,0) to return either NULL or an implementation defined unique
> pointer. I've come across an implementation of calloc() which chooses
> to return NULL.
Does anyone know what the ISO-C standard has to say? I think it would
be helpful if xcalloc() not only followed ISO-C but also did it in a
consistent way across platforms.
nice catch,
Andrew
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-03-05 12:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <1010303075808.ZM24102@ocotillo.lan>
2001-03-03 0:02 ` Kevin Buettner
2001-03-05 12:28 ` Andrew Cagney [this message]
2001-03-05 12:39 ` J.T. Conklin
2001-03-05 12:51 ` Kevin Buettner
2001-03-05 7:52 David Taylor
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=3AA3F64E.9F0302A5@cygnus.com \
--to=ac131313@cygnus.com \
--cc=gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com \
--cc=kevinb@cygnus.com \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox