Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site amdahl.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxj!mhuxh!mhuxi!mhuxm!mhuxn!houxm!ihnp4!zehntel!dual!amdahl!sh From: sh@amdahl.UUCP (Steve Hanson) Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards Subject: dc - desk calculator Message-ID: <670@amdahl.UUCP> Date: Tue, 4-Dec-84 17:42:27 EST Article-I.D.: amdahl.670 Posted: Tue Dec 4 17:42:27 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 6-Dec-84 04:38:16 EST Distribution: net Organization: Amdahl Corp, Sunnyvale CA Lines: 5 In dc.c (System V Release 2.0) salloc is called with the argument of 0 which is used as a argument to malloc. Can anyone tell me what the interpretation of malloc(0) is and what assumptions did the author make about malloc and realloc?