Re: bglibs-1.022/str/alloc.c comment

Bruce Guenter <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.sysutils.bgware
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Tue, Jun 21, 2005 at 05:38:19PM +0200, Uffe Jakobsen wrote:
> Is there any special reason why you don't use realloc() in str_alloc() - 
> and use malloc/memcpy/free instead ?

Hrm, nope.  I think at the time I may have been referencing some
documentation (including DJB's libraries) that hinted at some
unreliability in realloc.  Having said that, that would be a pretty
fundamental problem in any libc, and using realloc really does make more
sense (especially if the underlying library uses mmap for large
allocations).
-- 
Bruce Guenter <[email protected]> http://em.ca/~bruceg/ http://untroubled.org/
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