Re: modutils-2.3.15 'insmod'

From: Andreas Schwab (schwab@suse.de)
Date: Wed Jul 09 2003 - 10:45:22 EST

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"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.

Andreas.

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