13 Sep
2015
13 Sep
'15
7:15 a.m.
On Sat, Sep 12, 2015 at 08:32:57PM -0400, Doug McIlroy wrote:
It's odd that the later introduction of calloc()
as a zeroing malloc()
has never been complemented by a similar variant of realloc().
That's a really good point. Anyone like these?
void *alloc(size_t bytes);
void *realloc(void *old, size_t want);
void *zalloc(size_t bytes);
void *zealloc(void *old, size_t want);
So alloc is new, we can have that. Realloc() is OK? Or not? Does the
current one have weird semantics?
zalloc/zealloc are new, we can have those.
If you guys like these I can push on Linus and the glibc people.