Re: [PATCH 2/4] short circuit out of a few places where we would allocate zero bytes

Hi,

On Sat, 24 Dec 2005, Eric Wong wrote:

> dietlibc versions of malloc, calloc and realloc all return NULL if
> they're told to allocate 0 bytes, causes the x* wrappers to die().
> 
> There are several more places where these calls could end up asking
> for 0 bytes, too...
> 
> Maybe simply not die()-ing in the x* wrappers if 0/NULL is returned
> when the requested size is zero is a safer and easier way to go.

I would prefer that, too. But the cleanest way would be to prevent calls 
to *alloc if the size is 0...

Ciao,
Dscho

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