[Python-Dev] Problem with the memory docs (original) (raw)

Martin v. Loewis martin@v.loewis.de
04 Apr 2002 21:54:52 +0200

"Fredrik Lundh" <fredrik@pythonware.com> writes:

umm. I have to admit that it's rather ugly, but I'm pretty sure the following guarantees that requesting zero bytes will never return a NULL pointer:

As Tim explained earlier, this implementation violates the ISO C requirement that different calls of malloc return different pointers.

Regards, Martin