Re: realloc

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From: Larry Jones
Date: Fri, 31 Mar 1989 23:12

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In article <cYAd3My00UkaI1vvZr@andrew.cmu.edu>, bader+@andrew.cmu.edu (Miles Bader) writes:
> scjones@sdrc.UUCP (Larry Jones) writes:
> > And when handed a non-NULL pointer and a zero size, it acts like
> > free.  This behavior is required by the draft ANSI Standard.
> 
> Does it return NULL in this case (when it acts like free)?  If so, how
> extra-ordinarily convenient...

It's implementation defined -- the implementation is allowed to
return either a NULL pointer or a pointer to a zero-sized object
(although many people find that concept quite repugnant, that's
the way many existing implementations behave).

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From: scjones@sdrc.UUCP (Larry Jones)
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Subject: Re: realloc
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Date: 31 Mar 89 23:12:32 GMT
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