Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com X-Authentication-Warning: thing1-200.fsi.com: ford owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2004 13:02:21 -0600 (CST) From: Brian Ford X-X-Sender: ford@thing1-200 Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com To: Thomas Mellman cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: ftp bug report In-Reply-To: <20040219185629.75069.qmail@web14302.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: References: <20040219185629.75069.qmail@web14302.mail.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-IsSubscribed: yes On Thu, 19 Feb 2004, Thomas Mellman wrote: > Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > >As an exercise for the reader: > > > > buf = (char *) malloc (size); > > to = buf; > > [...] > > if (newsize > size) > > buf = realloc (buf, newsize); > > while (newsize--) > > *to++ = *src++; > > > >What's wrong with this picture? > > > > Oh, I hope there's an answer section in the back > of the book. > Hint: realloc can move the data, returning a different base address. -- Brian Ford Senior Realtime Software Engineer VITAL - Visual Simulation Systems FlightSafety International Phone: 314-551-8460 Fax: 314-551-8444 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/