Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1998 11:39:17 -0700 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Realloc fix for review Message-ID: <25401.903638357@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 20 Aug 1998 10:19:42 MDT." <199808201619.KAA20970@harmony.village.org>
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> So rather than hack some really complicated a and na's, I write a new > function, added it to libc and then modified all of src/lib to use > this new function. I called it frealloc (freeing realloc). I added > it to the man page, etc. I know that this isn't in ANSI C nor in > POSIX, but after seeing how hard it was to get people to use strncpy > right, I thought it would be good to add this to libc. Looks to me like the best choice in a sea of even worse choices. ;) - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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