GNU bug report logs - #58096
support malloc NULL return

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Package: grep;

Reported by: Aleksandar Kostadinov <akostadinov <at> gmail.com>

Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2022 15:45:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Aleksandar Kostadinov <akostadinov <at> gmail.com>
To: 58096 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#58096: support malloc NULL return
Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2022 12:19:19 +0300

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Hello,

grep fails when using a certain malloc implementation (memkind) because of
its reliance on malloc returning 0 when zero size is passed to it. Memkind
returns NULL instead which according to authors [1] is one of the
acceptable values in malloc specification.

Can grep be updated to also support a NULL return value?

Thank you!

[1] https://github.com/memkind/memkind/issues/853#issuecomment-1241678167

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