[musl] Re: realloci(): A realloc() variant that works in-place

[Thorsten Glaser]

On Sat, 1 Nov 2025, Rich Felker wrote:

>Actually returning a value larger than n seems bad (makes it
>impossible to detect OOB writes beyond the actually requested size)
>though so this seems like a dubious feature.

But it allows the application to write beyond the requested size
through the returned one, saving it from needing to call the new
realloc-like function too often if it stores that value as size,
e.g. for growing string buffers.

bye,
//mirabilos
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