realloc

[Tim_CDC_Roberts at cup.portal.com]

In <10170 at bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU>, scs at adam.pika.mit.edu (Steve Summit) writes:

> It is an apparently well-
> kept secret that realloc is supposed to behave gracefully at
> a slightly special-cased boundary point: when handed a NULL
> pointer and a nonzero size, it acts essentially as a malloc.

I am unable to locate any justification for this statement.  Is this
behavior actually defined anywhere, or is it just your wish that realloc
behave this way?

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