[PATCH] test-skeleton.c (xrealloc): Support realloc-as-free
Mike Frysinger
vapier@gentoo.org
Thu Jun 23 13:18:00 GMT 2016
On 23 Jun 2016 14:54, Florian Weimer wrote:
> 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?
OK
-mike
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