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Subject: Re: Advance warning of failure of realloc()
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> Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 11:12:35 -0600
> From: JT Williams <jeffw AT darwin DOT sfbr DOT org>
> 
> -: As for how this could be done differently--`realloc' could check if
> -: there's enough free memory immediately following the old block, for
> 
> *Must* the memory block be contiguous?

How else can you grow a buffer without allocating its full size?

How can you return a non-contiguous buffer using just a single
pointer?