[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
>
> > As a related note glibc has some questionable protections, like
> >free(NULL)
> > which it simply ignores resulting in bugs remaining hidden. GNU ls
> >does a
> > free(NULL) somewhere which we discovered while demoing truss on linux
> > processes in BrandZ. It is also visible when you use ltrace in Linux.
>
>
> free(NULL) is defined as legal in the standard.
But only in order to be symmetric to
realloc(NULL, size)
which behaves like malloc(size).
Jörg
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