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Re: malloc attributes and realloc


Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de> writes:

| Gabriel Dos Reis <gdr@integrable-solutions.net> writes:
| 
| > Now, it is you who are confusing "free()ed" and "freed".
| > You have to be careful when reading the C standard :-)
| 
| The standard talks about allocation and deallocation of memory.
| Memory is allocated by malloc, calloc and realloc, and it is
| deallocated by free and realloc. 

In user programs, yes.  The standard does NOT impose such requirements
on the implementation of the library.

-- Gaby


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