Re: Memory allocation strategy

[Pete Hall <pete@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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On 2011-01-07 09:35, Scott Klement wrote:

> The way I understand it...  if you call %realloc() the system will try
> to extend your existing allocation if it can.  I think, in most cases,
> it will...

There's a gotcha though. If the allocated storage contains pointers,
they may no longer be valid after running realloc. Linked lists don't
like that very much. However, it's easily fixed, because with a linked
list, you can just allocate another chunk. That's completely transparent
when traversing the list.

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Pete Hall
pete@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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