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From: kaleb@thyme.jpl.nasa.gov (Kaleb Keithley)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Realloc() considered unsafe (was Re: Safe coding practices)
Message-ID: <1991Jan25.231348.3263@thyme.jpl.nasa.gov>
Date: 25 Jan 91 23:13:48 GMT
References: <22870@well.sf.ca.us> <22311:Jan2502:34:1191@kramden.acf.nyu.edu> <1991Jan25.180832.2528@cbnewsh.att.com>
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In article <22311:Jan2502:34:1191@kramden.acf.nyu.edu>, brnstnd@kramden.acf.nyu.edu (Dan Bernstein) writes:
> [ lots deleted ]
> Now you can talk all you want about reallocating memory (btw, there's no
                                                                ^^^^^^^^^^
> safe way to use realloc(), but you knew that) ...
  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

You better tell OSF, MIT, and hundreds, if not thousands, of software
developers, because I know for a fact that products like X Window and
Motif make frequent use of realloc().

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Kaleb Keithley                        kaleb@thyme.jpl.nasa.gov

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