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

Thorsten Glaser tg@mirbsd.de
Sat Nov 1 20:58:16 GMT 2025


On Sat, 1 Nov 2025, Thiago Macieira wrote:

>Everything one can do in C++ one can do in C, even if it 
>takes writing a bit more code.

But in C, you don’t have the problem that data types are
unmovable by realloc. You can just use offsets instead of
pointers.

unconvinced,
//mirabilos
-- 
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