Re: Is AC_FUNC_MALLOC more trouble than it's worth?

[John Burger]

> ... I am rather mystified as to why someone
> would want to malloc(0).. if you have any examples as to how that 
> might be
> interesting to do, that would be helpful :)

I don't think anyone would explicitly call malloc(0).  But if you're 
computing how much space to allocate somewhere, you need to 
special-case when the computation results in zero, unless you know 
malloc(0) works.

- John Burger
  MITRE