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Re: malloc attributes and realloc
Gabriel Dos Reis <gdr@integrable-solutions.net> writes:
> I think we'd better off not listing realloc for reasons exposed in
> this thread.
Perhaps it would be worthwhile to define a realloc attribute. That
would have the opportunity to optimize code like this:
c1 = *p1;
p2 = realloc(p1, n);
c2 = *p2;
because we know that c1 == c2.
Andreas.
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