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Re: new int[0]

#889
From: Chip Salzenberg
Date: Thu, 03 Sep 1992 15:36
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According to basti@orthogo.UUCP:
>I just reinstalled gcc-2.2.2 on our RS6000 (configured rs6000-ibm-aix) and
>stumbled again over this damn bug within __builtin_new of libgcc2.c:
>Allocating e.g., new int[0], fires the new_handler!

You're fixing the wrong thing.  Instead of allowing malloc() to return
NULL without complaint, you should say "p = malloc (sz ? sz : 1)".
-- 
Chip Salzenberg at Teltronics/TCT  <chip@tct.com>, <73717.366@compuserve.com>
   "Do Rush place weird subliminal backmasked messages in their songs to
 compel unwilling geeks to commit evil .sig atrocities?"  -- Dean Engelhardt
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From: chip@tct.COM (Chip Salzenberg)
Subject: Re: new int[0]
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Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 15:36:00 GMT
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