On Wed, Jul 09, 2003 at 05:45:22PM +0200, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> "Richard B. Johnson" <root@chaos.analogic.com> writes:
>
> |> It is likely that malloc(0) returning a valid pointer is a bug
> |> that has prevented this problem from being observed.
>
> It's not a bug, it's a behaviour explicitly allowed by the C standard.
... and has long been used to generate unique cookies of pointer type.
Regards,
Bill Rugolsky
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