realloc

[Gordon Cross]

In article <9132 at alice.UUCP> andrew at alice.UUCP (Andrew Hume) writes:
>
>	malloc(n) returning 0 is, to me, an error condition. that is,
>i should pack up and go home. (of course i check malloc's return value).
>But now, thanks to pANS, i first have to check if n==0. this is a pain
>in the butt.

Yes, it is.  I've always wanted behavior similiar to an "out-of-memory"
signal that I could trap to let me know when there is no more memory.  So
much so in fact, I wrote my own malloc that lets me set things up to have
a function called whenever an out-of-memory condition occurs.  Regrettably
to the best of my knowlegde, the pANS does not address this issue...
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