[fpc-devel] GetMem(SomePointer, 0) <> nil

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On Tue, 01 Mar 2011 22:19:38 +0100, Micha Nelissen <micha at neli.hopto.org>  
wrote:

> Paul Ishenin wrote:
>> 01.03.2011 19:29, Jonas Maebe wrote:
>>> That sounds very much like badly written code.
>> For simplicity we had the next code:
>>  GetMem(SomeArray, Count * SizeOf(ArrayCell))
>>  if SomeArray <> nil then DoSomeLogic;
>
> DoSomeLogic ... with a Count = 0, right? or was Sizeof(...) = 0? :-)

What I wonder is, if GetMem returns a non-NIL, valid pointer for a request
of zero bytes of memory, where does this pointer actually point to? ;)


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