Shrinking with realloc
Henry Spencer
henry at utzoo.uucp
Sun Aug 13 10:39:43 AEST 1989
In article <2090 at dataio.Data-IO.COM> bright at dataio.Data-IO.COM (Walter Bright) writes:
>The C library is already very large...
Actually not true; it is disgracefully small, which leads to repeated
re-invention of the wheel. See my paper "How To Steal Code" in the
San Francisco Usenix proceedings for a dozen examples.
>... Adding functions shouldn't be done
>unless there is a demonstrable significant need.
This, however, is definitely true.
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