[PATCH] Avoid munmap(x, 0) in malloc

Ulrich Drepper drepper@redhat.com
Wed Jul 18 13:34:00 GMT 2001


Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> writes:

> 2001-07-18  Jakub Jelinek  <jakub@redhat.com>
> 
> 	* malloc/malloc (new_heap): Don't call munmap for zero length.

Looks OK.  Even if this condition wouldn't happen often it's
worthwhile adding the patch since it shouldn't be relied on the kernel
catching invalid requests.

Thanks,

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