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- From: drake@drake.almaden.ibm.com (Sam Drake)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
- Subject: Re: malloc(0) fails on AIX and nowhere else I could find ...
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- Date: 7 Jan 93 09:52:45 GMT
- References: <93Jan7.012526est.169557-2@watdragon.uwaterloo.ca>
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- In article <93Jan7.012526est.169557-2@watdragon.uwaterloo.ca> jmsellen@watdragon.uwaterloo.ca ("John M. Sellens") writes:
- >Trying to malloc() 0 bytes on AIX fails, but works on Ultrix, IRIX,
- >Dynix, SunOS, BSD, MIPS RiscOS.
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- It's explicitly forbidden by SVID, as I recall. AIX is SVID
- compliant. Are any of the other systems you mentioned? (Apparently
- not.) Trying to make folks happy who think "UNIX == BSD" and those who
- think, "UNIX == System V" ain't always possible.
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- "The nice thing about standards is there are so many of them."
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