Re: Does malloc() have to zero the block?

[Tony Finch <dot@...>]

On Wed, 19 Sep 2007, Klaus Ripke wrote:
>
> read on http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007908775/xsh/malloc.html :
> "If the size of the space requested is 0, the behaviour is
> implementation-dependent; the value returned will be either a null
> pointer or a unique pointer."

Lua requires a NULL pointer in this situation, so it can't just use a
standard realloc().

Tony.
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