✧✦Catherine✦✧ @whitequark@mastodon.social
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ok, so, you know how the standards (C/POSIX) allow malloc(0) to return NULL?

i went to refresh my memory after a discussion of a security issue today and as best as i can tell, no commonly used OS has ever had malloc(0) return NULL, including historical ones¹. windows, glibc, musl, BSDs, all return a non-NULL pointer to some object

¹nabijaczleweli.xyz/content/blo

017. malloc(0) & realloc(…，0) ≠ 0 — blognꞌt — nabijaczleweli

017. malloc(0) & realloc(…，0) ≠ 0

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