On 6/4/07, Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Well, the red-zones won't catch readers, and more importantly, even for writers they are *really* inconvenient, because it will just tell you something bad happened, it won't tell you *where* it happened.
True. On 6/4/07, Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Since comparing the addresses of two zero-sized allocations is insane and not done _anyway_, it's just much better to return an invalid address.
Then we might as well return your regular NULL pointer for zero-length allocations as you can't do anything sane with ZERO_SIZE_PTR either. - 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/
