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From: crossgl@ingr.com (Gordon Cross)
Newsgroups: comp.std.c,comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: realloc
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Date: 3 Apr 89 14:36:04 GMT
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In article <9122@alice.UUCP> andrew@alice.UUCP (Andrew Hume) writes:
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}gregg townsend reminds us of the pANS ``feature'' that malloc(0) returns NULL.
}can anyone provide the (or any) justification of this pointless stupid
}definition?

Yes, a pointer to something of zero size takes up NO space!!!  You would be
able to increase this size later with the (ANSI) realloc...  (ain't life great)

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