On Fri, 1 Jun 2007, John Anthony Kazos Jr. wrote: > > + * The behavior for zero sized allocs changes. We no longer > > + * allocate memory but return ZERO_SIZE_PTR. > > + * WARN so that people can review and fix their code. > > I don't see why people have so much opposition to zero-size memory > allocations. There's all sorts of situations where you want a resizeable > array that may have zero objects, especially in these days of > hotpluggability.
In case you have not read the description to the end: This patch does exactly what you want and legitimizes zero size object use. The warning will be remove before 2.6.22 is released. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
