Re: The realloc question: rationale?

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From: David Vandevoorde
Date: Mon, 26 Feb 1996 01:33

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>>>>> "KK" == Kerry Kimbrough <kk@onr.com> writes:
KK> Joe Buck wrote:
KK>>  You can, of course, call the C realloc().

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

Since you can provide your own new operators etc., you can ensure that
it's safe to use realloc with new/delete (or you can provide a function
based on realloc with similar functionality).

	Daveed

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From: vandevod@cs.rpi.edu (David Vandevoorde)
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Subject: Re: The realloc question: rationale?
Date: 26 Feb 1996 01:33:33 GMT
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