What does malloc(0) return?

Doug Gwyn gwyn at smoke.brl.mil
Sat Jun 1 05:17:48 AEST 1991

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In article <11614 at ncar.ucar.edu> steve at unidata.ucar.edu (Steve Emmerson) writes:
>The subject-line says it all and my K&R2 is silent on the matter.

malloc(0) should return either NULL or a pointer to some storage location.
Technically the behavior is undefined, since there are no objects of the
specified size (0) according to the standard.

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