Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1998 06:19:56 -0400 (EDT) From: Peter Dufault <dufault@hda.com> To: imp@village.org (Warner Losh) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Realloc fix for review Message-ID: <199808211019.GAA15118@hda.hda.com> In-Reply-To: <199808201619.KAA20970@harmony.village.org> from Warner Losh at "Aug 20, 98 10:19:42 am"
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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. As long as you are changing the code, how about adding a non-posix header so that there is a well defined place to hang the implementation on another system? In my opinion, believing that a non-standard interface is needed should dictate a non-standard header. It adds an amount of damping in adding non-posix things. Peter -- Peter Dufault (dufault@hda.com) Realtime development, Machine control, HD Associates, Inc. Safety critical systems, Agency approval To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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