Re: 'Freeing' storage with realloc

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From: Dan Pop
Date: Sat, 17 Feb 1996 17:52

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In <4g1771$ms3@solutions.solon.com> jason@nc.bhpese.oz.au (Jason Tyler) writes:

>No. Just try writing a little program that malloc()s something huge, then
>realloc() it down to something tiny, then writes to the end of the original
>(huge) buffer. You should get a segfault.

s/should/may

Dan
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