From:	"John M. Aldrich" <fighteer AT cs DOT com>
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: Pointers and DJGPP
Date:	Thu, 19 Mar 1998 19:12:45 -0500
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Zoey4Pres wrote:
> 
> On the other hand, he could have used realloc and preserved the form of his
> original function.
> 
> s = (char *)realloc ...

Two problems here.  First, since the original variable is an automatic
array, not a pointer, you can't realloc() it.  Second, since it is
passed by value, changing it in mstrcat() would not apply that change to
the original variable.

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