Mark McLoughlin wrote:
On Tue, 2007-05-22 at 15:16 +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
>> + buffer = realloc (buffer, len+1);
>> + if (buffer == NULL) goto out_of_memory;
Note, if realloc() fails, the original buffer isn't freed. So, you want
to make sure you free the original one.
I even kept the oldbuffer around for this reason, but then forgot to
free it!
Grrrr ... garbage.collection++
Rich.
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