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tonyarkles
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And correspondingly calling free() on the returned value is also unlikely to be particularly well tested.
kragen
46 days ago
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Well, unless it's NULL. I'm pretty sure that people call free(0) a lot.
int_19h
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I mean, these are literally all special values that are explicitly called out in all the relevant standards (both ISO C and POSIX). Anyone who is competent and is writing tests for libc would surely cover that.
kragen
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Probably malloc(0) is not
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untested, yes. But it's unlikely to be regularly executed by applications.
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