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Re: strfile: new module
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Simon Josefsson |
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Re: strfile: new module |
Date: |
Thu, 01 Jun 2006 12:47:03 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Ralf Wildenhues <address@hidden> writes:
> * Paul Eggert wrote on Thu, Jun 01, 2006 at 10:20:58AM CEST:
>> Simon Josefsson <address@hidden> writes:
>>
>> > What about realloc (NULL, ...)?
>>
>> In practice that is as portable as free (NULL). They were
>> standardized at the same time.
>
> Well, with the difference being here that realloc, similar to malloc,
> may not do what you expect from its glibc implementations, i.e., return
> non-NULL upon a request of zero size (which is the main reason for
> the Gnulib realloc module).
Read-file doesn't call realloc with size=0 (but it does call it with
pointer=NULL), so I've dropped the dependency on the realloc module in
read-file.
/Simon