Paul Eggert wrote: > + xalloc: new function xreallocarray > + This effectively replaces xnmalloc, which perhaps should be deprecated. > + The name xreallocarray should be easier to remember now that > + reallocarray is a standard GNU function.
I disagree that xnmalloc should be deprecated. In 90% of the cases where I use xnmalloc() or its macro equivalent XNMALLOC, it's for arrays that get allocated once and freed once. xnmalloc and XNMALLOC take 2 arguments, whereas xreallocarray takes 3 arguments. It is often possible to express a function with a simple interface as a special case of a more complex function. If, in many use-cases, the simpler function is sufficient, users should not be forced to understand the more complex function. No one has ever proposed to deprecate malloc(), although it is a special case of realloc(). Or to deprecate gettext(), on the grounds that it is a special case of dcgettext(). Bruno
