Re: malloc and realloc

From: "santosh" <santosh.k83@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: 28 Jan 2007 10:04:23 -0800

tphipps@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

At the risk of repeating myself...

On Jan 28, 4:20 pm, CBFalconer <cbfalco...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

<snip>

Any time you see "x =realloc(x, size);" you have a potential
memory leak, and you know the coder is probably inexperienced.
Exceptions exist.

So there's a memory leak for some tiny number of clock cycles until
abort() is called... big deal.

Some primitive systems are unable to reclaim memory lost through a
program leak. DOS and Windows 3.x series were famous for this feature.
IIRC, even Windows 95 occasionally suffered from this deficiency.

.

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