https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=103162
Jonathan Wakely <redi at gcc dot gnu.org> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Resolution|--- |INVALID Status|NEW |RESOLVED --- Comment #6 from Jonathan Wakely <redi at gcc dot gnu.org> --- The committee's view is that this function should not be able to return a null pointer because you can't store objects there (so if that's not true for your environment, use -fno-delete-null-pointer-checks to inform the compiler of your special case). I will create a library issue to fix the wording in the standard, to make the semantics clear (without the misleading reference to the storage returned by allocation functions).