Re: when can realloc fail?

Joe Wright wrote:

.... snip ...

I have posed a question a little upthread: Given ptr points to an
area to be freed, and then 'realloc(ptr, 0);'. Granted that realloc
can return NULL or not, will the allocation of ptr be freed? I'd
like to think so.

You don't know, which is one more reason to consider such
allocaters to be brain-dead.

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