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From: shankar@hpclscu.HP.COM (Shankar Unni)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: expanding argv[]
Message-ID: <660021@hpclscu.HP.COM>
Date: 7 Oct 88 17:22:57 GMT
References: <13893@mimsy.UUCP>
Organization: HP NSG/ISD California Language Lab
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> There is nothing particularly Pascal-ish about this.  It is, however,
> wrong.  argv[] is not allocated by malloc(), or not guaranteed to be so
> allocated, and therefore it is wrong to call realloc on it.

Whoops! foot-in-mouth.

I remember now (sound of slapping on forehead :-))! Well, go on, use calloc
instead and copy over the existing argv array..
--
Shankar