Dave Korn <dave.korn.cyg...@gmail.com> writes: > On 29/05/2010 01:14, Ian Lance Taylor wrote: >> Dave Korn <dave.korn.cygwin@ writes: > >>> there is *no* circumstances >>> under which ignoring the return from *any* function is *always* a bug. > >> For practical purposes, it is always a bug to ignore the return value >> of realloc (I disregard the unusual case of passing 0 as the second >> argument in order to free the memory block). > > Also the case of calling it for a size that is known a priori to be less > than the original size of the block!
Depending on the implementation it may be necessary to relocate the block even in this case. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, sch...@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different."
