Revise TARPL's description for allocating 0 bytes
In Section 3.2, TARPL says that "standard allocators (including jemalloc, the one used by default in Rust) generally consider passing in 0 for the size of an allocation as Undefined Behaviour." However, the C standard and jemalloc manual says allocating zero bytes should succeed: - C11 7.22.3 paragraph 1: "If the size of the space requested is zero, the behavior is implementation-defined: either a null pointer is returned, or the behavior is as if the size were some nonzero value, except that the returned pointer shall not be used to access an object." - [jemalloc manual](http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=jemalloc&sektion=3): "The malloc and calloc functions return a pointer to the allocated memory if successful; otherwise a NULL pointer is returned and errno is set to ENOMEM." + Note that the description for `allocm` says "Behavior is undefined if size is 0," but it is an experimental API.
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Safe code need not worry about ZSTs, but *unsafe* code must be careful about the
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consequence of types with no size. In particular, pointer offsets are no-ops,
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and standard allocators (including jemalloc, the one used by default in Rust)
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generally consider passing in `0` for the size of an allocation as Undefined
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Behaviour.
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may return `nullptr` when a zero-sized allocation is requested, which is
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indistinguishable from out of memory.
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