Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!ginosko!aplcen!haven!adm!smoke!gwyn From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn) Newsgroups: comp.std.c Subject: Re: Shrinking with realloc Message-ID: <10698@smoke.BRL.MIL> Date: 10 Aug 89 15:18:49 GMT References: <26328@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU> Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn) Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD. Lines: 6 In article <26328@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU> signup@CS.UCLA.EDU writes: >If realloc is used to shrink a chunk of allocated storage, is it guaranteed >by the standard that the storage won't be moved? No, the storage is always potentially subject to being moved by realloc(), perhaps as part of the malloc package's grand allocation scheme.