[OCLUG-devel] malloc() woes

Christopher Smith x at xman.org
Sun May 29 13:34:45 PDT 2005


James Colannino wrote:

>Christopher Smith wrote:
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>>Okay, so first thing is that I'm betting your "more_memory" function
>>is not returning char*. Without seeing it's definition though, it's
>>hard to be sure. 
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>It should be.  I probably should have posted it though.  Here's the
>prototype:
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>char * more_memory(char *buffer);
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>You pass the function the old pointer and it returns a new pointer.
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What does it do with the old memory, and how does it decide how much new 
memory it needs to allocate?

--Chris


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