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From: swick@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ralph R. Swick)
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Subject: Re: Xt realloc() problem
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Date: 29 Jun 89 20:13:26 GMT
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> Does X expect the memory allocation routines to care of 'zero' bytes request?

The MIT implementation does not necessarily expect malloc(0) to behave
the same on all systems.

> Is this some kind of bug in the ToolKit.?

Yes, and we plan to fix it in the same way that Xlib handles it; by
adding a configuration parameter (actually, using the one that's
already there for Xlib) to tell Xt how the particular libc behaves.