Ralf Wildenhues <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > * Paul Eggert wrote on Thu, Jun 01, 2006 at 10:20:58AM CEST: >> Simon Josefsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> > What about realloc (NULL, ...)? >> >> In practice that is as portable as free (NULL). They were >> standardized at the same time. > > Well, with the difference being here that realloc, similar to malloc, > may not do what you expect from its glibc implementations, i.e., return > non-NULL upon a request of zero size (which is the main reason for > the Gnulib realloc module).
Read-file doesn't call realloc with size=0 (but it does call it with pointer=NULL), so I've dropped the dependency on the realloc module in read-file. /Simon
