[PATCH] test-skeleton.c (xrealloc): Support realloc-as-free

Mike Frysinger vapier@gentoo.org
Thu Jun 23 13:18:00 GMT 2016


On 23 Jun 2016 14:54, Florian Weimer wrote:
> On 06/23/2016 02:45 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> > On 23 Jun 2016 14:23, Florian Weimer wrote:
> >> If the requested size is zero, realloc returns NULL, but the
> >> deallocation is still successful.
> >
> > not exactly.  realloc(NULL, 0) will return a valid pointer (much
> > like malloc(NULL) will).  code relies on this to generate cookies.
> 
> Ugh, right.  At least our malloc behaves in this way.  What about the 
> attached patch?

OK
-mike
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