Realloc() considered unsafe (was Re: Safe coding practices)

[Kaleb Keithley]

In article <22311:Jan2502:34:1191 at kramden.acf.nyu.edu>, brnstnd at kramden.acf.nyu.edu (Dan Bernstein) writes:
> [ lots deleted ]
> Now you can talk all you want about reallocating memory (btw, there's no
                                                                ^^^^^^^^^^
> safe way to use realloc(), but you knew that) ...
  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

You better tell OSF, MIT, and hundreds, if not thousands, of software
developers, because I know for a fact that products like X Window and
Motif make frequent use of realloc().

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