On Friday, October 22, 2010 04:34:52 Joakim Tjernlund wrote:
Don't you want to know if the app screwed up or if the system is out of memory?
The only upside to malloc(0) == NULL I can see is an extra check for apps for which size == 0 is an error to the app too(something the app should have checked itself long before calling malloc).
if an app is doing malloc(0), it is broken. i'm really not worried at all about detecting OOM state. my real world experience thus far has shown no actual problems with this behavior. so unless you have some actual examples where this behavior "harms" u-boot, i say we merge the OP's patch.
hmm, "destroys quoted context", I think that is a new one. What exactly is destroyed?
it seems it fails to rewrap quoted lines and then when other people reply, their clients arent able to recover thus screwing it up even more. pick any msg from you in this thread. like this one: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.boot-loaders.u-boot/87174/focus=87290 -mike