Shrinking with realloc

[Henry Spencer]

In article <2090 at dataio.Data-IO.COM> bright at dataio.Data-IO.COM (Walter Bright) writes:
>The C library is already very large...

Actually not true; it is disgracefully small, which leads to repeated
re-invention of the wheel.  See my paper "How To Steal Code" in the
San Francisco Usenix proceedings for a dozen examples.

>... Adding functions shouldn't be done
>unless there is a demonstrable significant need.

This, however, is definitely true.
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