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authorEric Andersen <andersen@codepoet.org>2001-06-28 21:22:19 +0000
committerEric Andersen <andersen@codepoet.org>2001-06-28 21:22:19 +0000
commit029b4a04221794101812407f5c60155bdfdd1481 (patch)
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Allow xrealloc to act as a free() when size=0, per SuS2.
-Erik
-rw-r--r--libbb/xfuncs.c12
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/libbb/xfuncs.c b/libbb/xfuncs.c
index f3b294be2..eb93bf139 100644
--- a/libbb/xfuncs.c
+++ b/libbb/xfuncs.c
@@ -44,7 +44,17 @@ extern void *xmalloc(size_t size)
44 44
45extern void *xrealloc(void *old, size_t size) 45extern void *xrealloc(void *old, size_t size)
46{ 46{
47 void *ptr = realloc(old, size); 47 void *ptr;
48
49 /* SuS2 says "If size is 0 and ptr is not a null pointer, the
50 * object pointed to is freed." Do that here, in case realloc
51 * returns a NULL, since we don't want to choke in that case. */
52 if (size==0 && old) {
53 free(old);
54 return NULL;
55 }
56
57 ptr = realloc(old, size);
48 if (!ptr) 58 if (!ptr)
49 error_msg_and_die(memory_exhausted); 59 error_msg_and_die(memory_exhausted);
50 return ptr; 60 return ptr;