Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cornell!uw-beaver!uw-june!pardo 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 References: <26328@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU> <1431@cbnewsl.ATT.COM> <26362@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU> Reply-To: pardo@uw-june.cs.washington.edu (David Keppel) Followup-To: comp.lang.c Organization: University of Washington, Computer Science, Seattle Lines: 16 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 -- pardo@cs.washington.edu {rutgers,cornell,ucsd,ubc-cs,tektronix}!uw-beaver!june!pardo