AIX malloc(0) is null
B. Galliart
bgallia at orion.it.luc.edu
Wed May 8 00:34:03 CEST 2002
How many people believe in testing if their computer is out of memory by
requesting the allocation of *0* bytes?
So, what is wrong with the following picture:
gpg: out of memory while allocating 0 bytes
GNUPG v1.07 *REQUIRES* the use of m-guard on AIX to ensure that GPG never
attempts malloc(0) (m-gaurd always allocates at least 5 bytes). There is
just something brain dead about requesting *nothing* and exiting if you do
not get *something*. Please update memory.c to skip malloc if 0 bytes are
requested or update the configure script to automatically include m-gaurd
if malloc(0) returns null.
Thanks
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