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To: Gleb Smirnoff <glebius@FreeBSD.org>
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Subject: Re: bin/79048: realloc() copies data even when the size of
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In message <200503231238.j2NCccug050911@freefall.freebsd.org>, Gleb Smirnoff wr
ites:
>Synopsis: realloc() copies data even when the size of allocated memory decrease
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>Responsible-Changed-From-To: freebsd-bugs->phk
>Responsible-Changed-By: glebius
>Responsible-Changed-When: Wed Mar 23 12:37:45 GMT 2005
>Responsible-Changed-Why: 
>Poul-Henning is the right person to handle this.


This is by design, read the paper.

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