broken realloc (was Re: Safe coding practices (was Re: Bug in users command))

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From: Larry Campbell
Date: Sun, 27 Jan 1991 02:38

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In article <23975:Jan2516:36:5891@kramden.acf.nyu.edu> brnstnd@kramden.acf.nyu.edu (Dan Bernstein) writes:
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-Some versions of realloc() return the original pointer rather than 0 if
-they run out of memory. So you have to code the malloc()/bcopy()/free()
-sequence yourself if you want error checking.

Really?  This is obviously Evil and Rude and Broken and should have been
Reported to the Proper Authorities.  I am curious, since we have to write
code for a lot of different platforms.  Do you know of any platforms that
have this particular bug?

-- 
Larry Campbell             The Boston Software Works, Inc., 120 Fulton Street
campbell@redsox.bsw.com    Boston, Massachusetts 02109 (USA)
      The U.S. Constitution may not be perfect, but it sure beats
      whatever we're using right now.

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From: campbell@redsox.bsw.com (Larry Campbell)
Newsgroups: comp.bugs.4bsd,comp.std.c,comp.lang.c
Subject: broken realloc (was Re: Safe coding practices (was Re: Bug in users command))
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Date: 27 Jan 91 02:38:12 GMT
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