10 Sep
2015
10 Sep
'15
10:41 p.m.
below
On Thu, Sep 10, 2015 at 4:21 PM, Larry McVoy <lm(a)mcvoy.com> wrote:
Am I the only one that remembers realloc() being buggy
on some systems?
Amen... it was rarely useful. I always found realloc to one of the
part I could never trust. I do remember what you got back from any of the
malloc calls could vary widely. Particularly pre-ANSI C and working on
non-UNIX systems.
Malloc in general was always a tarbaby because there were (are) so many
implementations "in the wild." I used to advise our application people to
create something that was application specific and then call the local
malloc under the covers, but the chances that a general malloc
implementation would be optimal for your code was low.
Clem