9.543 malloc

POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/malloc.html

Gnulib module: malloc-posix

Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:

• Upon failure, the function does not set errno to ENOMEM on some platforms: mingw, MSVC 9.

Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:

• malloc (0) always returns a NULL pointer on some platforms: AIX 5.1, OSF/1 5.1.

Extension: Gnulib provides a module ‘malloc-gnu’ that substitutes a malloc implementation that behaves more like the glibc implementation, regarding the result of malloc (0).