On Jun 9, 2015, at 06:54 , Dave <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> the thing is that malloc should never return NULL

On Jun 9, 2015, at 09:25 , Jens Alfke <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> But the C standard says malloc can return NULL if it can’t allocate the 
> block, and there are many ways that can happen:

I might be misremembering, but I think this has come up before, and one other 
way is that malloc is allowed to return NULL if the requested size is 0. 
(Whether or not it does so is standard-library-implementation-dependent.)



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