Merge pull request #767 in HDFFV/hdf5 from ~DEROBINS/hdf5_der:zero_allocation_fix_develop to develop

* commit '3e4f6138b60d8363c377e453d63f875775ec907a':
  Removed asserts from H5MM calls that conflict with stated behavior and added a test to ensure that this doesn't happen in the future.

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 7 deletions

diff --git a/src/H5MM.c b/src/H5MM.c
index ee3b28f..866dfbe 100644
--- a/src/H5MM.c
+++ b/src/H5MM.c
@@ -268,8 +268,6 @@ H5MM_malloc(size_t size)
 {
     void *ret_value = NULL;
 
-    HDassert(size);
-
     /* Use FUNC_ENTER_NOAPI_NOINIT_NOERR here to avoid performance issues */
     FUNC_ENTER_NOAPI_NOINIT_NOERR
 
@@ -357,8 +355,6 @@ H5MM_calloc(size_t size)
 {
     void *ret_value = NULL;
 
-    HDassert(size);
-
     /* Use FUNC_ENTER_NOAPI_NOINIT_NOERR here to avoid performance issues */
     FUNC_ENTER_NOAPI_NOINIT_NOERR
 
@@ -407,8 +403,6 @@ H5MM_realloc(void *mem, size_t size)
     /* Use FUNC_ENTER_NOAPI_NOINIT_NOERR here to avoid performance issues */
     FUNC_ENTER_NOAPI_NOINIT_NOERR
 
-    HDassert(mem || size);
-
     if(NULL == mem && 0 == size)
         /* Not defined in the standard, return NULL */
         ret_value = NULL;
@@ -454,7 +448,7 @@ H5MM_realloc(void *mem, size_t size)
  *              NULL is an acceptable value for the input string.
  *
  * Return:      Success:    Pointer to a new string (NULL if s is NULL).
- *              Failure:    abort()
+ *              Failure:    NULL
  *
  * Programmer:  Robb Matzke
  *              Jul 10 1997