Re: [xml] Action of realloc

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From: Daniel Veillard (Daniel.Veillard@w3.org)
Date: Tue Dec 05 2000 - 20:16:32 EST

On Tue, Dec 05, 2000 at 08:21:08PM +0000, Bjorn Reese wrote:
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> JohnnyXia@acersoftech.com.cn wrote:
>
> > pOld = realloc( pOld, newsize );
>
> You are right. If realloc() fails, then the old memory block is
> lost. This behaviour is not restricted to individual platforms,
> but a general ANSI/ISO stdlib behaviour.

  yes this is kind of unclean, but basically if the programs runs out
of memory, it will leak. That's a problem, I don't plan to fix this
immediately but I keep this in the list of things TODO. Patch welcome :-)

Daniel 

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