the BAD_PTR idea in talloc.h is actually a bad idea - it means callers have no way of telling if the call really failed

(This used to be commit 7a96ca313e2f6b5ad8a713babd3cac0bbcc4c399)

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 7 deletions

diff --git a/source3/lib/talloc.c b/source3/lib/talloc.c
index 4c263ec4d61..85dd7b5b12d 100644
--- a/source3/lib/talloc.c
+++ b/source3/lib/talloc.c
@@ -55,13 +55,7 @@ void *talloc(TALLOC_CTX *t, size_t size)
 	void *p;
 	struct talloc_chunk *tc;
 
-	if (size == 0) {
-		/* debugging value used to track down
-		   memory problems. BAD_PTR is defined
-		   in talloc.h */
-		p = BAD_PTR;
-		return p;
-	}
+	if (size == 0) return NULL;
 
 	p = malloc(size);
 	if (!p) return p;