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From: bjoern@drdhh.hanse.de (Bjoern Kriews)
Newsgroups: comp.std.c
Subject: Re: realloc
Message-ID: <2942.04.91@drdhh.hanse.de>
Date: 26 Apr 91 10:27:22 GMT
References: <91112.102011LSC@SLACVM.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU>
Organization: Digital Island
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From article <91112.102011LSC@SLACVM.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU>, by LSC@SLACVM.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU:
>      "If the space cannot be allocated, the object pointed to by ptr is unchang
> unchanged."
> 
>      Does this mean that one has no means of checking the success or failure
> of the operation? Does one have to resort to errno?

"If it cannot reallocate the memory, it returns NULL"

Hmm, what to say, he DID RTFM  :-)

Greetings,
	Bjoern
	

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