On Thu, 6 Feb 2003 16:59:30 +0100 (CET), Ronald Landheer-Cieslak wrote: > On Thu, 6 Feb 2003, Jim Meyering wrote: > > Another reason to use at least AC_FUNC_REALLOC (and one that motivated > > me to write the macros and replacement functions) is that on some > > systems, realloc (p, n) fails when P is NULL. > Would you happen to know of any (common) systems for which this is a > problem?
Although no longer common, the problem of realloc() failing when passed a null pointer afflicted certain versions of NextStep (even though the documentation stated that it was a safe operation). -- ES
