Re: The realloc question: rationale?

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From: Kerry Kimbrough
Date: Sun, 25 Feb 1996 16:44

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Joe Buck wrote:
> 
> You can, of course, call the C realloc().

But then crash? My understanding is that mixture of alloc/free and friends 
with new/delete is not guaranteed to be valid and therefore is discouraged. 
Not true?

If true, then realloc'ing a new'ed object ain't kosher, and there goes the 
hope for specializing STL to implement realloc efficiently, i.e. w/o copy and 
delete.

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Regards,

Kerry Kimbrough 

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