[RFC][PATCH] malloc: Fix test for malloc_usable_size

DJ Delorie dj@redhat.com
Mon Dec 16 20:52:00 GMT 2019


Matheus Castanho <msc@linux.ibm.com> writes:
> But I'm still puzzled by why the test on malloc/tst-malloc-usable.c does
> not consider the possibility of the return value being greater than the
> requested alloc size, as the comment on the source indicates that could
> happen.

Well, we're testing our own implementation, so we should know exactly
what to expect.  We're not testing that we meet some standard, we're
testing that we do what we expect.



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