------- Additional Comments From nickc at redhat dot com 2008-02-25 10:23 ------- Hi Alan,
> What is the point of the patch in comment #1? If we fail a realloc we are > shortly going to exit with an error. Not necessarily. It is possible whatever was being attempted at the time will be aborted, but that the program will carry on rather than just exiting. Besides it is better to be paranoid and free an allocated block of memory if all the remaining pointers to it are about to be discarded, rather than just leaving it orphaned. Cheers Nick -- http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=868 ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is. _______________________________________________ bug-binutils mailing list bug-binutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-binutils
