On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 23:13, Ben Noordhuis <info_at_bnoordhuis.nl> wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 09:34, Tor Arntsen <tor_at_spacetec.no> wrote:
>> Just to pre-answer a question people may ask.. realloc(NULL) works
>> fine on many architectures. But not on all architectures. To be
>> perfectly portable we use the malloc(1) trick.
>
> Tor, do you happen to know on what platforms or architectures
> realloc(NULL) causes issues? ISO mandates that it should be
> functionally equivalent to malloc() and I use it like that in my own
> code. It's never blown up so far but if there are portability issues,
> I'd like to be one step ahead of them.

AIX 4.x comes to mind. Note that it doesn't crash all the time.. only sometimes.

-Tor
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