http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=60092
--- Comment #23 from ro at CeBiTec dot Uni-Bielefeld.DE <ro at CeBiTec dot Uni-Bielefeld.DE> --- > --- Comment #22 from Jakub Jelinek <jakub at gcc dot gnu.org> --- > (In reply to Rainer Orth from comment #21) >> The new test FAILs on Solaris 11 (both SPARC and x86), which, unlike Solaris >> 10, >> has posix_memalign in libc: >> >> FAIL: gcc.dg/torture/pr60092.c -O0 execution test >> >> The posix_memalign invocation with size = -1 cannot be right, and indeed the >> function returns ENOMEM. > > The invocation uses size -1 intentionally, and expects ENOMEM, but if Solaris > libc stores to what the first argument points to even when it fails, then it > violates POSIX. POSIX.1 doesn't explicitly forbid setting *memptr on error: http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007904975/functions/posix_memalign.html But I agree it seems strange, and in the OpenSolaris sources you see that *memptr is set to the memalign() return value (NULL in this case). Rainer
