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

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From: Rich Salz
Date: Mon, 28 Jan 1991 22:03

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In <23975:Jan2516:36:5891@kramden.acf.nyu.edu> brnstnd@kramden.acf.nyu.edu (Dan Bernstein) writes:
>Some versions of realloc() return the original pointer rather than 0 if
>they run out of memory.
Than such versions are seriously broken, since returning the original pointer is
a valid thing to do if there already was enough space allocated.

I would not code for such systems.
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Subject: Re: Safe coding practices (was Re: Bug in users command)
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