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From: gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.std.c
Subject: Re: realloc
Message-ID: <15944@smoke.brl.mil>
Date: 22 Apr 91 21:40:06 GMT
References: <91112.102011LSC@SLACVM.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU>
Organization: U.S. Army Ballistic Research Laboratory, APG, MD.
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In article <91112.102011LSC@SLACVM.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU> LSC@SLACVM.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU writes:
>     Does this mean that one has no means of checking the success or failure
>of the operation? Does one have to resort to errno?

No -- when one of the allocation functions fails, it returns a null pointer.