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Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2002 14:01:01 +0200 (IST)
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On Mon, 25 Feb 2002, CBFalconer wrote:

> Incidentally, I was surprised to learn (from info libc) that sbrk
> returns -1 for failure rather than NULL.  Is this correct, or
> possibly a documentation error?

It is correct.  sbrk is available in many Unix systems, so we must return 
what sbrk returns on Unix, which is -1.