Paul Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Just a note: the 1989 ANSI C standard (adopted as the ISO C standard in
>1990) required that malloc(0) return a valid pointer, so any system that
>doesn't provide this capability is not even compliant with the most
>basic, bare minimum set of standards required by POSIX, which has been
>in place for 16 years.
Please double check your source. The C FAQ, as regularly posted
to comp.lang.c.moderated and cited by various authorities there and
in comp.lang.c, claims otherwise:
http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/C-faq/q11.26.html
Actually, it's my understanding that the C FAQ's answer is true for
C89/C90, but that C99 changed that to require malloc(0) to return
a unique pointer on success, a NULL pointer on failure. So those
systems are only six years out of date, not 16.
Philip Guenther
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