# never call malloc with size 0 · gitcafe/zig

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Author: Andrew Kelley

Committer: Andrew Kelley

## Message

```
never call malloc with size 0

instead we return nullptr. this makes the behavior consistent
across all platforms.

closes #1044
closes #1045

```

## Parents

- [d21a1922eb5d76b9b0d0611eaeb42c91f83234ab](https://git.cafe/gitcafe/zig/commit/d21a1922eb5d76b9b0d0611eaeb42c91f83234ab?format=markdown)

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