Re: test-memchr failure on rawhide

[Andreas Schwab]

Bruno Haible <address@hidden> writes:

> Andreas Schwab wrote:
>> This is not a bug.  NULL is not a valid object pointer.
>
> Do you mean to say that none of the functions
>   memchr
>   memcmp
>   memcpy
>   memmove
>   memset
>   wmemchr
>   wmemcmp
>   wmemcpy
>   wmemmove
>   wmemset
> may be called with arguments ptr = NULL and n = 0 ?

As described in 7.21.1#2, the pointer argument must always be a valid
pointer to an object.

> This would certainly be a departure from historical practice.

Implementations are free to define undefined behaviour any way they
like.  The C standard imposes no restrictions on that behaviour.

Andreas.

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