Date: Mon, 5 Aug 1996 15:21:04 -0300
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To: Conrad Wei-Li Song <conradsong AT mail DOT utexas DOT edu>, djgpp AT delorie DOT com
From: Cesar Scarpini Rabak <csrabak AT dce03 DOT ipt DOT br>
Subject: Re: Malloc and realloc pains...

At 21:26 28/07/96 -0500, Conrad Wei-Li Song wrote:
>Just so everyone's aware.  There are quirks in which different libraries
>treat malloc and realloc routines.
>
>Borland returns a NULL pointer on a malloc( (size_t)(0) );
>Microsoft does not deallocate the passed memory block on a failed realloc.
Why it should? Is there anything new in this area in the Standard?

>
>Perhaps someone can come up with a way to neatly fix the problem?
>
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