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From: pardo@june.cs.washington.edu (David Keppel)
Newsgroups: comp.std.c
Subject: Re: Shrinking with realloc
Message-ID: <8988@june.cs.washington.edu>
Date: 11 Aug 89 17:30:09 GMT
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Reply-To: pardo@uw-june.cs.washington.edu (David Keppel)
Followup-To: comp.lang.c
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In article <26362@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU> signup@cs.ucla.edu writes:
>[Realloc used in a]
>shrinking context "Here's some space you can have back if you want; no biggie
>if you can't use it."  It seems easy to provide; was it ever considered?

Doubtless it has been considered over and over.  The charter of the
ANSI committee is to codify existing standard practice.  If you think
it belongs in the next version of ANSI C, then implement it and
submit it as `prior art'.

Followups to comp.lang.c.

	;-D on  ( The standard answer )  Pardo
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