Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S268396AbTGIPu1 (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Jul 2003 11:50:27 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S268397AbTGIPu1 (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Jul 2003 11:50:27 -0400 Received: from 209-166-240-202.cust.walrus.com ([209.166.240.202]:3309 "EHLO ti3.telemetry-investments.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S268396AbTGIPuY (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Jul 2003 11:50:24 -0400 Date: Wed, 9 Jul 2003 12:04:45 -0400 From: "Bill Rugolsky Jr." To: Andreas Schwab Cc: root@chaos.analogic.com, Linux kernel Subject: Re: modutils-2.3.15 'insmod' Message-ID: <20030709160445.GE21969@ti19> Mail-Followup-To: "Bill Rugolsky Jr." , Andreas Schwab , root@chaos.analogic.com, Linux kernel References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 669 Lines: 18 On Wed, Jul 09, 2003 at 05:45:22PM +0200, Andreas Schwab wrote: > "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. ... and has long been used to generate unique cookies of pointer type. Regards, Bill Rugolsky - 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/