> On Jun 9, 2015, at 9:51 AM, Quincey Morris 
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> 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.)

I think I remember that coming up recently. In Darwin, malloc(0) does return a 
non-NULL pointer. As far as I know it’s a valid heap block that just happens to 
occupy 0 bytes.

—Jens
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