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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: calloc()
Keywords: calloc null zero
Message-ID: <10440@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 23 Jun 89 14:34:54 GMT
References: <14650@watdragon.waterloo.edu>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn)
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Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <14650@watdragon.waterloo.edu> dtsteen@dahlia.waterloo.edu writes:
>      block = calloc(0,1);
>What does the ANSI spec (which I don't have) have to say about this?

"If the size of the space requested is zero, the behavior is
implementation-defined; the value returned shall be either a
null pointer or a unique pointer."