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Article #440Re: Shrinking with realloc
From: David Keppel
Date: Fri, 11 Aug 1989 17:30
Date: Fri, 11 Aug 1989 17:30
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In article <26362@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU> signup@cs.ucla.edu writes:
>[Realloc used in a]
>shrinking context "Here's some space you can have back if you want; no biggie
>if you can't use it." It seems easy to provide; was it ever considered?
Doubtless it has been considered over and over. The charter of the
ANSI committee is to codify existing standard practice. If you think
it belongs in the next version of ANSI C, then implement it and
submit it as `prior art'.
Followups to comp.lang.c.
;-D on ( The standard answer ) Pardo
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cornell!uw-beaver!uw-june!pardo From: pardo@june.cs.washington.edu (David Keppel) Newsgroups: comp.std.c Subject: Re: Shrinking with realloc Message-ID: <8988@june.cs.washington.edu> Date: 11 Aug 89 17:30:09 GMT References: <26328@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU> <1431@cbnewsl.ATT.COM> <26362@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU> Reply-To: pardo@uw-june.cs.washington.edu (David Keppel) Followup-To: comp.lang.c Organization: University of Washington, Computer Science, Seattle Lines: 16