Re: Shrinking with realloc

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From: Doug Gwyn
Date: Thu, 10 Aug 1989 15:18

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In article <26328@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU> signup@CS.UCLA.EDU writes:
>If realloc is used to shrink a chunk of allocated storage, is it guaranteed
>by the standard that the storage won't be moved?

No, the storage is always potentially subject to being moved by realloc(),
perhaps as part of the malloc package's grand allocation scheme.

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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.std.c
Subject: Re: Shrinking with realloc
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Date: 10 Aug 89 15:18:49 GMT
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