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Re: realloc documentation


From: Simon Josefsson
Subject: Re: realloc documentation
Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2009 09:24:39 +0200
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Bruno Haible <address@hidden> writes:

>> Perhaps we should have a single realloc-posix
>> module that behaves as glibc does now.
>
> No no, a module with suffix '-posix' is meant to provide the POSIX
> guarantees for the function and not more. (Cf. for example, the
> fnmatch-posix and fnmatch-gnu modules.)

What about a realloc-gnu which implements a behaviour we think it is
useful?  I know that we used -gnu for modules that are glibc extensions
over POSIX, but I think we could extend it to be just any extension over
POSIX.  Alternatively, use realloc-gnulib?

/Simon




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