Re: Correct way to push an empty string?

["Liam Devine" <liamdevine@...>]

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I do not have access to the standards at this precise moment (will reply with section numbers at a later time). C99 specifies that it is fine to pass zero to memcpy as the size parameter. As for malloc, it is undefined for C99, C++ differs as it did define it.

On 23 August 2015 19:47:02 GMT+01:00, Sean Conner <sean@conman.org> wrote:
>
>It was thus said that the Great Roberto Ierusalimschy once stated:
>> > Yes I followed the code through as well, but I’m not happy with
>> > basing usage on what the code happens to do when the spec is silent
>> > about it.
>>
>> Maybe it is just me, but it seems that it goes without saying (both
>for
>> memcpy and for luaL_pushlstring and anything similar) that if you use
>> zero bytes in address 'a', 'a' should be irrelevant.
>
>  So, what should malloc(0) return?
>
>  -spc (There are two schools of thought here ... )

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Liam
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