From: ams AT ludd DOT luth DOT se (Martin Str|mberg)
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Subject: Re: Is realloced memory copied when necessary?
Date: 23 May 1999 09:19:38 GMT
Organization: University of Lulea, Sweden
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Andrew Davidson (andrew AT lemure DOT freeserve DOT co DOT uk) wrote:
: I need to know if, on making a call to realloc to expand the size of some
: memory I am using, will realloc copy the data from the original memory I
: pass to it if it returns a different pointer, or will I have to do that
: myself?

Yes, it will copy your data. (If it wouldn't, then you'd just as well
call malloc, memcpy and free yourself.)


Alanis Morissette, Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie,

							MartinS