Re: malloc realloc and pointers

"K. Jennings" <kjennings@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
[...]
ravi wrote:
2. With realloc(), if some pointer 'ptr' is pointing initially to a
perticular position in a buffer (char *buffer) then on performing a
realloc() on this buffer, what will be 'ptr' pointing to?
[snip]
What happens when ptr is not one returned by a previous
invocation to malloc(), calloc() or realloc()?

Undefined behavior.

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