realloc() (was: Re: Safe coding practices)
Jonathan I. Kamens
jik at athena.mit.edu
Thu Jan 31 07:41:59 AEST 1991
In article <1991Jan30.201955.21797 at ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>, mcdonald at aries.scs.uiuc.edu (Doug McDonald) writes:
|> So the quote preceeded by > signs is not true for a correct realloc.
|> You CAN reuse p and *p after a failed realloc.
We're not talking about "a correct realloc." Remember that the book in
question is //Portability and the C Language//. If you want to assume that
because ANSI C specifies realloc() as you quoted, all implementation of
realloc() you come across specify it in that way, that's your right, but I
doubt such an assumption is portable, which is why Jaeschke gave the
restriction he did.
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