Re: [Valgrind-users] posix_memalign on Mac results in an apparent leak

[Paul F. <pa...@fr...>]

John Reiser wrote:

> There is a dispute about the meaning of memory allocation when
> the requested size is 0.  The recipient must not access any memory
> there; after all, the requested size is zero.  Also, NULL strings
> occur *everywhere*, so *any* address ought to be satisfactory
> for a zero-length block.

In C++, operator new[] with a size of zero is well defined. It should 
return a valid pointar that should not be dereferenced.

A+
Paul