On 11/17/2014 11:15 PM, Jeroen Ooms wrote:
> An additional question: in the getinmemory.c example [1], why does
> realloc allocate 1 byte more than needed and than sets it to 0 at the
> end of the callback? The help page for CURLOPT_WRITEFUNCTION says "The
> data passed to this function will not be zero terminated!". What is
> the benefit of adding a 0 manually?
>
>
> [1] http://curl.haxx.se/libcurl/c/getinmemory.html

Depending on your application and requirements it may be beneficial to
treat the memory as a zero terminated string.

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