Date: Fri, 13 Dec 1996 13:30:49 -0200
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To: billc AT blackmagic DOT tait DOT co DOT nz, jean-gael DOT gricourt AT snet DOT net
From: Cesar Scarpini Rabak <csrabak AT dce03 DOT ipt DOT br>
Subject: Re: Help !
Cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com

At 09:06 13/12/96 +0000, Bill Currie wrote:
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>
>Malloc (and thus new) will not allocate 0 bytes, and will return a null
>pointer.
>

Are you sure of this? The C++ Programming Language 2nd Ed. says that /a
pointer to an object/ is returned, not a null pointer, for the new operator.
(See pg. 498).
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