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From: Hans-Bernhard Broeker <broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de>
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Subject: Re: gcc bug or am I blind?
Date: 12 Dec 2001 12:27:02 GMT
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Waldemar Schultz <schultz AT ma DOT tum DOT de> wrote:
> Waldemar Schultz schrieb:
>> 
>> Hi,
>> Please have a look on this program
>> 
>> //M_CAT.c
> --snip
>>   dest=realloc(dest,strlen(arg)*sizeof(*dest));

> of course:   dest=realloc(dest,(1+strlen(arg))*sizeof(*dest));
> but the problem persists.

The realloc() call ist still *very* wrong.  You're forgetting the space
that dest already needs.  The second argument would have to be:

	(strlen(dest)+strlen(arg)+1)*(sizeof(*dest) 

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Hans-Bernhard Broeker (broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de)
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