Re: Reading a string of unknown size

Santosh said:

Anyway, your allocation strategy is very inefficient. Your calling
realloc() once every iteration of the loop. This could result in
fragmentation of the C library's memory pool. Why not allocate in terms
of fixed sized or dynamically growing blocks, say 128 bytes or so to
start with?

Very True, I agree with you.
I just wanted to give "Tonio Cartonio" the idea of how to do it.

What you actually gave him was a very good demonstration of how not to do
it.

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