Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S268364AbTGIPaq (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Jul 2003 11:30:46 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S268372AbTGIPaq (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Jul 2003 11:30:46 -0400 Received: from ns.suse.de ([213.95.15.193]:38669 "EHLO Cantor.suse.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S268364AbTGIPap (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Jul 2003 11:30:45 -0400 To: root@chaos.analogic.com Cc: Linux kernel Subject: Re: modutils-2.3.15 'insmod' References: From: Andreas Schwab X-Yow: I want to read my new poem about pork brains and outer space... Date: Wed, 09 Jul 2003 17:45:22 +0200 In-Reply-To: (Richard B. Johnson's message of "Wed, 9 Jul 2003 11:25:11 -0400 (EDT)") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.1002 (Gnus v5.10.2) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 722 Lines: 19 "Richard B. Johnson" 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. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, SuSE Labs, schwab@suse.de SuSE Linux AG, Deutschherrnstr. 15-19, D-90429 N?rnberg Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different." - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/