[PATCH] test-skeleton.c (xrealloc): Support realloc-as-free
Florian Weimer
fweimer@redhat.com
Thu Jun 23 12:54:00 GMT 2016
On 06/23/2016 02:45 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> On 23 Jun 2016 14:23, Florian Weimer wrote:
>> If the requested size is zero, realloc returns NULL, but the
>> deallocation is still successful.
>
> not exactly. realloc(NULL, 0) will return a valid pointer (much
> like malloc(NULL) will). code relies on this to generate cookies.
Ugh, right. At least our malloc behaves in this way. What about the
attached patch?
Thanks,
Florian
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