From: Johannes Schindelin Date: Sat, 24 Dec 2005 12:44:13 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/4] short circuit out of a few places where we would allocate zero bytes Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <20051224121243.GA3963@mail.yhbt.net> Hi, On Sat, 24 Dec 2005, Eric Wong wrote: > dietlibc versions of malloc, calloc and realloc all return NULL if > they're told to allocate 0 bytes, causes the x* wrappers to die(). > > There are several more places where these calls could end up asking > for 0 bytes, too... > > Maybe simply not die()-ing in the x* wrappers if 0/NULL is returned > when the requested size is zero is a safer and easier way to go. I would prefer that, too. But the cleanest way would be to prevent calls to *alloc if the size is 0... Ciao, Dscho