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Message-Id: <B1724849-3441-4BF2-9671-87B694D541BD@shiz.me>
Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2017 14:47:04 +0200
From: Shiz <hi@...z.me>
To: musl@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: gethostbyname2.c /
6476b8135760659b25c93ff9308425ca98a9e777 breaking asterisk 13 compatibility
>> Second: I'm currently debugging a strange memory corruption problem
>> and
>> have just had a look at the gethostbyname2.c code:
>>
>> I was wondering: why is it safe to do free(h) on the initial run when
>> *h has not been
>>
>> static struct hostent *h;
>> size_t size = 63;
>> struct hostent *res;
>> int err;
>> do {
>> free(h);
>>
>> Best regards,
>>
>> Pirmin
h is defined as having static storage, as such its initial
value is NULL. free(NULL) is valid.
- Shiz
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