NetNews Usenet Archive 1993 #1/NN_1993_1.iso/spool/comp/unix/aix/13140

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From: [e-mail] (Anastasios Kotsikonas)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: malloc(0) fails on AIX and nowhere else I could find ...
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Date: 8 Jan 93 15:26:42 GMT
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Organization: Computer Science Department, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA
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In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] ("John M. Sellens") writes:
>Trying to malloc() 0 bytes on AIX fails, but works on Ultrix, IRIX,
>Dynix, SunOS, BSD, MIPS RiscOS.
>
>OK, it's documented in the man page on AIX, but it's a pointless and
>annoying inconsistency.  I wish AIX was UNIX.

Thanks for posting a documented feature. Now please go through all the AIX
manuals and post all such potential problems that are bound to cause problems
like this (I allocate zero bytes every day for my imaginary structures in my
imaginary programs), and make any effort to make these posting as lengthy as
possible to flood the world with more crud that we could ever handle.

Thanks also for posting the progy -- we could never write our own to
allocate 0 bytes and check for the return address from malloc(); sharing code
is important I think.

Tasos