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Re: strfile: new module
From: |
Ralf Wildenhues |
Subject: |
Re: strfile: new module |
Date: |
Thu, 1 Jun 2006 10:29:44 +0200 |
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Mutt/1.5.11 |
* Paul Eggert wrote on Thu, Jun 01, 2006 at 10:20:58AM CEST:
> Simon Josefsson <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > What about realloc (NULL, ...)?
>
> In practice that is as portable as free (NULL). They were
> standardized at the same time.
Well, with the difference being here that realloc, similar to malloc,
may not do what you expect from its glibc implementations, i.e., return
non-NULL upon a request of zero size (which is the main reason for
the Gnulib realloc module).
Cheers,
Ralf