realloc

Gregg Townsend gmt at arizona.edu
Fri Mar 31 04:40:10 AEST 1989


realloc() is sometimes used to grow a list of objects as entries are added. 
If it's to be used with an initially empty list, realloc() must accept a null
pointer as its frist argument -- because ANSI C allows malloc() to return NULL
in response to a request of size zero!

    Gregg Townsend / Computer Science Dept / Univ of Arizona / Tucson, AZ 85721
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