src: remove UncheckedMalloc(0) workaround by tniessen · Pull Request #44543 · nodejs/node
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Sep 7, 2022Assuming that UncheckedMalloc(0) returns a non-nullptr is non-standard and we use other allocators as well (e.g., OPENSSL_malloc) that do not guarantee this behavior. It is the caller's responsibility to check that size != 0 implies UncheckedMalloc(size) != nullptr, and that's exactly what the checked variants (Malloc etc.) already do. The current behavior is also inconsistent with UncheckedRealloc(), which always returns a nullptr when the size is 0, and with the documentation in src/README.md as well as with multiple comments in the source code. This changes UncheckedMalloc(), UncheckedCalloc(), and UncheckedRealloc() to always return a nullptr when the size is 0 instead of doing fake allocations in UncheckedMalloc() and UncheckedCalloc() while returning a nullptr from UncheckedRealloc(). This is consistent with existing documentation and comments. Refs: nodejs#8571 Refs: nodejs#8572
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Oct 11, 2022Assuming that UncheckedMalloc(0) returns a non-nullptr is non-standard and we use other allocators as well (e.g., OPENSSL_malloc) that do not guarantee this behavior. It is the caller's responsibility to check that size != 0 implies UncheckedMalloc(size) != nullptr, and that's exactly what the checked variants (Malloc etc.) already do. The current behavior is also inconsistent with UncheckedRealloc(), which always returns a nullptr when the size is 0, and with the documentation in src/README.md as well as with multiple comments in the source code. This changes UncheckedMalloc(), UncheckedCalloc(), and UncheckedRealloc() to always return a nullptr when the size is 0 instead of doing fake allocations in UncheckedMalloc() and UncheckedCalloc() while returning a nullptr from UncheckedRealloc(). This is consistent with existing documentation and comments. Refs: #8571 Refs: #8572 PR-URL: #44543 Reviewed-By: Rafael Gonzaga <rafael.nunu@hotmail.com> Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
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