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Re: malloc failure and errno
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Bruno Haible |
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Re: malloc failure and errno |
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Sun, 9 Sep 2007 16:03:55 +0200 |
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Jim Meyering wrote:
> POSIX guarantees that errno is defined when malloc or realloc
> fails, so there's no need to set it manually in that case.
Yet glibc does set it manually in some cases:
glibc-2.6.1/login/openpty.c:69
glibc-2.6.1/login/login.c:67
glibc-2.6.1/stdlib/setenv.c:180
glibc-2.6.1/sysdeps/unix/grantpt.c:82
What is the reason? Can malloc() return NULL with errno being set to something
different than ENOMEM?
Bruno
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