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From: diamond@csl.sony.JUNET (Norman Diamond)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: How big is the argv[] array?
Message-ID: <10033@socslgw.csl.sony.JUNET>
Date: 11 Oct 88 01:07:02 GMT
References: <1239500004@osiris.cso.uiuc.edu> <660020@hpclscu.HP.COM>
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In article <660020@hpclscu.HP.COM>, shankar@hpclscu.HP.COM (Shankar Unni) writes:
>   argv = (char **) realloc (argv, newsize * sizeof (char *))
>      /* newsize is the size of your expanded argv array */

What does realloc do when its first argument is a pointer to storage
that was not obtained by malloc?  Maybe you won't crash until your
program exits and the shell reads the next command line?
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