Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Permit zero-sized qemu_malloc() & friends

[Gerd Hoffmann]

On 12/01/09 15:08, Markus Armbruster wrote:
> For what it's worth, it violates the spec for malloc().  For zero-sized
> allocations, we may either return a null pointer (but we already decided
> we don't want to), or an object different from any other object alive.

Which clearly rules out the fixed memory location for malloc(0).

"malloc(size ? size : 1)" is indeed the easiest way to make sure we 
conform to the spec and also don't return NULL.

cheers,
  Gerd