[Andrew Pimlott <pimlott@abel.MATH.HARVARD.EDU>] realloc(p, 0) vs. free

[Jonathan Larmour]

Andreas Jaeger wrote:
> 
> Andrew reported the appended problem and accoring to Unix98 realloc
> (p,0) should free the pointer p but we don't do.
> 
> ISO C 9X defines realloc (ptr,0) as:
>        If size is zero and ptr is not a null pointer, the object it
>        points to is freed.

Actually, C89 defines realloc in this way too. We would be shooting
ourselves not to be C89 compliant!

Jifl
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