Shrinking with realloc

[Doug Gwyn]

In article <26362 at shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU> signup at cs.ucla.edu writes:
>[no_move_realloc] seems easy to provide; was it ever considered?

No, and it is unlikely that it would have been included in the Standard
even if it had been proposed.  This is the first time I've ever even
heard a complaint about this facet of realloc()'s (existing) design.
It doesn't seem like a significant deficiency in existing practice..