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Message-ID: <46655CEC.7070900@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 05 Jun 2007 14:54:04 +0200
From: Rene Herman <rene.herman@...il.com>
To: "John Anthony Kazos Jr." <jakj@...-k-j.com>
CC: Christoph Lameter <clameter@....com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org>
Subject: Re: SLUB: Return ZERO_SIZE_PTR for kmalloc(0)
On 06/05/2007 02:07 PM, John Anthony Kazos Jr. wrote:
> The name says exactly what it is. It's not at all dreadful. If we're going
> to return a special value in the zero-size case (and in only that case) as
> a valid pointer instead of actually allocating one byte and treating it as
> zero, what we have is...a zero-size pointer.
No, what we have is a sizeof(pointer) sized pointer pointing to an object of
size zero. ZERO_SIZE_PTR is butt-ugly. With a really ugly butt.
Rene.
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